Though skaters with the names of Lipinski, Lemieux, Yamaguchi and Gretzky are among the greatest to take to the ice, the most famous name on the slippery surface belongs to a slow, clunky, 53-year ...

First built in 1949, it’s the original Zamboni machine, a name that’s become indistinguishable from the thing itself, like Xerox, Kleenex, or Google. Zamboni Company.

The technical name for the funny-looking machine that refurbishes the ice at hockey and figure skating rinks is an ice resurfacer, but you probably know it better as a Zamboni.

Richard Zamboni agreed: “It really is a little strange when you get down to it,” he said of the machine’s popularity. “It was certainly something my father never envisioned.” ...

Zamboni machines take their name from their creator, Frank Zamboni, and have been regular feature in ice rinks across the world for more than half a century.

Since its debut on the ice in 1949, Zamboni also made a name for itself in Hollywood. In the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only , Roger Moore’s Bond used a Zamboni to stop his attackers.

Zamboni, a tinkerer born in Utah and raised in Idaho, is now better known as the eponymous name of an industrial icon. To wit: “Zamboni: The Coolest Machines on Ice,” by Eric Dregni “Clean ...

Like a vintage Ferrari, the Zamboni ZX5 was styled by the legendary design house Pininfarina. The ZX5 is an all-electric ice resurfacer, and should start to appear at venues in the near future.

Before Frank Zamboni developed the machine in 1949 that bears his name, resurfacing an ice rink took a team of men and a tractor about an hour. The early Zambonis were based on Jeeps. It wasn’t ...

SALT LAKE CITY — When you think of hockey, one name synonymous with excellence may come to mind: Zamboni. But what many Utahns might not know is that this iconic ice-resurfacing machine has ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – The Los Alamos County Ice Rink has announced its new Zamboni’s official name: Luke Icewalker. In January, the ice rink got its new machine and began a naming contest ...