There’s something Zen-like about watching a Zamboni, the hulking vehicle whose solemn dance is the feature of every intermission at an ice rink. There’s the drone of the machine, the driver’s look of ...

SOMERSET, Wis. — It's not the mileage, it's the terrain. Driving around in tight circles, scraping ice and spritzing water take a lot out of a machine, even one that travels only 5 mph. And when a ...

The Zamboni totally transformed winter sports by giving chopped-up ice surfaces a fresh-frozen smoothness in a matter of minutes. David Brewster/Star Tribune via Getty Images The Ice Capades were in ...

Richard Zamboni walks around the first ice-surfacing machine his father built seven decades ago. The 88-year-old is taking his time to remember. “We’re using the same framework today, basically, that ...