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ZAMBONI (continued): • Frank Zamboni also invented the “GrasshopDEERE. JOHNtoDEERE. (continued): per” (a machine roll up artificial turf); the (usedin toIllinois fill in that dirt John on topno-of • “Black It was Widow” while living cemetery “Astro Zamboni” (deticed the vaults); problemsthethat farmers faced when attempting to till soil. Because area had signed to vacuum water fromthe Astro-turf); formerly beenCarrier” woodland, thetosoil rich and the “Vault (built lift was and carry with hummus, whichvaults). clumped and clung to heavy cement burial the blades of the plows farmers were accus• For his contributions to improving ice rinks, tomed to using. While repairing a broken cirFrank Zamboni has been upon inducted into He the cular J. saw, Deere stumbled an idea. U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame, the World employed his smith skills to fashion the steel Figure Skating Museum HallHeofaffixed Fame, blade into the shape of aand plow. the National Inventors Hall of Fame, and the two wooden spokes, then hitched the device U.S. of Fame. to aHockey horse. ItHall plowed the heavy Illinois soil like a charm. In fact, a farmer who happened ZAMBONI FACTS to be observing the test run immediately put • Before Zambonis were invented, it took sevin an order for his own John Deere plow. eral men an hour to resurface an ice rink. In short Deere gave up hisZambonis blacksmithin • • There are order, currently about 10,000 shop and focused on making plows. The use around the world. company grew steadily and added many em-

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• During winter Olympic in Salt ployees.the In the late 1840s, Johngames relocated the Lake City in 2002, there were 20 Zambonis entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed onofhand. his own lack of education, John sent his

to travels the state’s finest schools. One of • Achildren Zamboni an average of three miles his proudest days occurred when son Charles (4.8 km) during each hockey game, covering earned the equivalent of an MBA about 2,000 miles (3,218 km) per from year.Bell’s Commercial College in Chicago.

• Road & Track magazine determined that the • machine’s With his son managing the company, topCharles speed was 9.7 mph (15.6 km/ John found time to pursue philanthropic hr) and that the machine would go from 0in-to Hehour co-founded the First ¼terests. mile per in 93.5 both seconds flat. National Bank and the First Congregational Church.

• InHe 2001, Zamboni was driven frominthe east was aelected the mayor of Moline 1873, coast of Canada (St. John’s, Newfoundland) where one of his first actions – the replaceacross (Victoria, At ment to of the West city’s Coast open drains withB.C.). a sewer about nine m.p.h. (14countless km/hr), lives the 4,500 mile pipe system – saved by reduc(7,242 journey took four months. ing thekm) spread of disease. original John Deere logo, registered • • InThe 2000, the Zamboni was immortalized as in an 1876, depicted a deerboard that was native to in Afriauthentic Monopoly game token the ca. Thirty-six later, in 1912, it was reNHL version ofyears the game. placed with the image of a North American

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• When a Zamboni machine operator in the white-tailed deer. In the decades that folMidwest passed away, his funeral procession lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took was Zamboni machine. overled asby theasymbol of the John Deere brand.

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