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Ice resurfacer. An ice resurfacer lays down a layer of clean water, which will freeze to form a smooth ice surface. An ice resurfacer is a vehicle or hand-pushed device for cleaning and smoothing the surface of a sheet of ice, usually in an ice rink. The first ice resurfacer was developed by American inventor and engineer Frank Zamboni in 1949 ...
Paramount, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Businessman, inventor. Known for. Invention of ice resurfacer and founder of Zamboni Company. Frank Joseph Zamboni Jr. (/ zæmˈboʊni /, Italian: [dzamˈboːni]; January 16, 1901 – July 27, 1988) was an American businessman and inventor whose most famous invention is the modern ice resurfacer, with ...
Frank J. Zamboni & Company is an American manufacturer of ice resurfacing equipment based in Paramount, California. Frank J. Zamboni developed the first ice resurfacing machine in 1949, and started the Zamboni Company in 1950. Zamboni / zæmˈboʊni / is an internationally registered trademark. The machines are made in Paramount, California ...
The New England Sports Center is a two-story, eight-rink ice-skating facility located in Marlborough, Massachusetts.Covering 22.3 acres (90,000 m 2) of suburban land, the 220,000-square-foot (20,000 m 2) building [1] has over 65 locker rooms, a hockey pro shop, ice skate sharpening, ice skate rentals, function rooms, a full-service restaurant, and a snack bar.
Website. Official website. Olympia ice resurfacer at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Resurfice Corporation is a manufacturer of ice resurfacing equipment based in Elmira, Ontario, Canada. Their Olympia brand product line includes push models through full size models built on a Chevy Powertrain. [1] In early 2009, Don Schlupp, the company's director ...
Ice rink. An ice rink (or ice skating rink) is a frozen body of water and/or an artificial sheet of ice where people can ice skate or play winter sports. Ice rinks are also used for exhibitions, contests and ice shows. The growth and increasing popularity of ice skating during the 1800s marked a rise in the deliberate construction of ice rinks ...
Timeline of glaciation. There have been five or six major ice ages in the history of Earth over the past 3 billion years. The Late Cenozoic Ice Age began 34 million years ago, its latest phase being the Quaternary glaciation, in progress since 2.58 million years ago. Within ice ages, there exist periods of more severe glacial conditions and ...
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