FRANK Zamboni: Google Games, Things You Need To Know From The Zamboni Machine

The Zamboni, many views were always present in hockey games and figure skating competitions around the world, found more than 60 years ago from Southern California, in the Los Angeles harbor and is now better known as the Paramount. "Iceland" is the name of the arena that has been owned and operated by the Zamboni family, who in the '40s had entered into business as a skating electric cooling unit that became known - business gradually Zamboni ice blocks that had less attention
Frank Zamboni, the first time he worked as a mechanic in an auto repair shop brother, spent most of the decade to work on his creation changes the game. In 1949, Zamboni created for the world's first self-propelled ice resurfacing machine - cut to the required work is only minutes before the hour-and-a-half-and at least some shovelers. And today, is the 112th birthday to Frank Zamboni, inventor Google respects hall-of-fame with Doodle interactive fittingly on his home page: you drive the Zamboni through increasingly difficult levels of the game, trying to coat the ice while avoiding many pitfalls that exist in his, Eight Things you need to Know About the Zamboni:

1. The Zamboni family did not build its Iceland Skating Rink to accommodate hockey, a sport that was permitted there only nearly a half-century later to maintain the rink’s viability. Yet Frank’s machine would become so crucially efficient and ubiquitous at hockey matches that it became the National Hockey League’s official resurfacing machine. Last year, the Zamboni company’s 10,000th machine was sold to the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens

2. Frank Zamboni — a Utah native who moved to California with his family in the ‘20s and worked in electrical supply — obtained a patent in 1946 for running pipes through refrigerated ice, providing for a more level, non-rippled surface

3. Zamboni built his ice-resurfacing machine by attaching a blade to a tractor, then later using a Jeep chassis. He secured his patent for the machine in 1953. His invention made an international splash at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley

4. Many top figure skaters have trained at the Zamboni family’s Iceland rink (often with famed coach John Nicks), including Olympic gold medalist Peggy Fleming, silver medalists Sasha Cohen and Dianne DeLeeuw, and Olympians JoJo Starbuck and Kenneth Shelley. In 2006, Zamboni was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame

5. The Zamboni company continued to develop cutting-edge resurfacing machines that promised a tight turning radius and a “perfect sheet of ice.” The company boasts: “Nothing else is even close

6. The Zamboni has been featured frequently in pop culture, from “Peanuts” specials (creator Charles Schulz was an avid hockey player and California ice-rink owner) to the NBC comedy “Cheers,” in which hockey player-turned-ice-show-performer Eddie LeBec (Jay Thomas) dies in a freak Zamboni accident while dressed as a penguin

7. In 2009, Zamboni was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame — one of the few inductees who never played the game competitively

8. In 2007, Zamboni was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, nearly 20 years after he died

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