Happy 112th Birthday, Frank Zamboni!

[Vagabond]

Frank Zamboni's 112th Birthday Is Celebrated With Google Doodle

On Wednesday, Google published perhaps the sleekest Google Doodle yet.

The search giant is celebrating the birthday of Frank Zamboni, creator of (what else?) the Zamboni ice-smoothing machine, with an 8-bit video game on its homepage.

The world's first "ice resurfacing machine" was invented by the Los Angeles-based mechanic for his family's skating rink. It quickly became a hit at hockey matches, cutting the once labor-intensive job of ice resurfacing from an "hour-and-a-half" of work for a shoveler to a matter of minutes, the Washington Post notes.

The Google Doodle will be up for the rest of the day, today only.

Admins, feel free to move this to Zamboni Time.

[Nan]

It's already there:

http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/show...2-Zamboni-game

[Aussie Willy]

Oh that is why they had the Zamboni Google.

[skateboy]

Cool. Happy Birthday, Mr. Zamboni!

[Vash01]

What would we (skaters) have done without Mr. Zamboni?

[Aussie Willy]

What would we (skaters) have done without Mr. Zamboni?

We either would have had to:

1/ Scrap the ice by hand
2/ Skate on really crappy ice

Here is some information about Zamboni

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/zamboni-101

And here is a road test that was done a while ago.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/special-...acer-model-500