Clean Sweep! Frank Zamboni's Ice Machine

Clean Sweep! Frank Zamboni's Ice Machine
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Publisher : Tundra Books
Total Pages : 34
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ISBN-10 : 9781770497962
ISBN-13 : 177049796X
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Book Synopsis Clean Sweep! Frank Zamboni's Ice Machine by : Monica Kulling

Download or read book Clean Sweep! Frank Zamboni's Ice Machine written by Monica Kulling and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback. Meet Frank Zamboni, whose determination and persistence led to his invention of the now-famous Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine. When Frank Zamboni, along with his brother and cousin, opened their own skating rink in 1940 in Paramount, California, it could take an hour and a half for a crew to resurface the ice. They had to level the surface by shaving down the pits and grooves with a tractor, remove the shavings, wash the ice and find a way to give the rink its shining finish. Skaters became exasperated with the wait, so Frank was determined to do something about it. Could he turn a ninety-minute job for five men into a ten-minute task for only one? Working in the shed behind his ice rink, Frank drew designs and built models of machines he hoped would do the job. For nine years, he worked on his invention, each model an improvement on the one before. Finally, in 1949, Frank tested the Model A, which "cleaned the ice in one sweep around the rink." The rest is history.


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