Zamboni’s creation revolutionized the ice resurfacing business. On June 23, 1953, the United States Patent Office awarded the company Patent 2,642,679 for its ice rink resurfacing machine.

It's actually an "ice resurfacer." Similar to how cotton swabs are now "Q-tips" and bandage strips are now "Band-Aids," Zamboni had such dominance on the ice resurfacer market.

But the mundane work of the ice-resurfacing machine can be just as mesmerizing. There’s a nostalgic magic to the way the Zamboni slowly circles the rink, with a glistening sheen in its wake.

In 1960, Zamboni supplied six ice-resurfacing machines to the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. (More from Mental Floss: 4 delicious food-related religious myths) ...

Using surplus war parts from Jeeps and tractors, he perfected his design on a number of iterations — and in 1949 the Model A Zamboni Ice Resurfacer was born. Fast forward more than 60 years and the ...

The darling of ice sports fans everywhere, the Zamboni ice resurfacing machine. Image courtesy Zamboni Company. This past January 16, a one of my LinkedIn pals named Jesse Cooke, a Buffalo ...

A Wall Street Journal article on the newest genre in music -- hockey rock -- mentioned the song, “Zamboni Driving Maniac,” which goes like this: Before and after and in between, One man’s ...

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Other companies make ice resurfacers of their own, but Zamboni has become the equivalent of Xerox, Google or Kleenex in the field. There are similar classes in Denver and College Station, ...

The council voted 5-2 to purchase a 2015 Zamboni 546 Ice Resurfacer for $95,635 to replace the unit at the ice rink.