Skaters’ pusher: all play, no work (Feb, 1965)
Filed under: Cool, Toys and Games — @ 2:43 pm
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1965
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1965
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Skaters’ pusher: all play, no work
The rear skater in the quintet at right furnishes locomotion —the others just go along for the ride.
Strapped to his back is a homemade air propeller powered by a lawn-mower motor. The blade of the pusher fan whirls in a protective wire frame.
Introduced on Como Lake, St. Paul, Minn., it can do 30 m.p.h.— without extra riders.
A tank of gas, a spinning propeller, a gas motor, a bunch of kids on ice…
what ever could go wrong?
Comment by Stannous — November 22, 2006 @ 8:01 pm
Not to worry! There’s a “protective wire frame”!
Comment by Laura — September 18, 2007 @ 10:35 am