History




William Staub, a mechanical engineer, developed the first consumer treadmill for home use.citation neededcitation needed Staub developed his treadmill after reading the 1968 book, Aerobics by Kenneth H. Cooper. Cooper's book noted that individuals who ran for eight minutes four to five times a week would be in better physical condition. Staub noticed that there were no affordable household treadmills at the time and decided to develop one for his own use during the late 1960s. He called his first treadmill the PaceMaster 600. Once finished, Staub sent his prototype treadmill to Cooper, who found the machine's first customers, including sellers of fitness equipment.

Staub began producing the first home treadmills at his plant in Clifton, New Jersey, before moving production to Little Falls, New Jersey.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Exercise treadmills

Image
The first US patent for a treadmill "training machine" (#1,064,968) was issued on June 17, 1913. The forerunner of the exercise treadmill was designed to diagnose heart and lung diseases, and was invented by Robert Bruce and Wayne Quinton at the University of Washington in 1952. Kenneth H. Cooper's research on the benefits of aerobic exercise, published in 1968, provided a medical argument to support the commercial development of the home treadmill and exercise bike. Among users of treadmills today are medical facilities (hospitals, rehabilitation centers, medical and physiotherapy clinics, institutes of higher education), sports clubs, biomechanics institutes, orthopedic shoe shops, running shops, Olympic training centers, universities, fire-training centers, NASA, test facilities, police forces and armies, gyms and even home users. Treadmill ergometers are now mainly motor driven. Most treadmills have a running deck with a rotating belt. Before and after the running dec
Read more

9)Sheikh Hasina the right choice as key guest to the Republic Day but trust the PMO to miss the obvious

India Republic Day -- From your record 10 Chief Guest visitors for the Republic Day March in 2018 to none in 2021 is as very much a reflection on Prime Minister Narendra Modis out of the field approach to foreign policy. Coming from a record 10 Chief Guest visitors for the Republic Day March in 2018 to none in 2021 is as very much a reflection on Prime Minister Narendra Modis out of the field approach to foreign policy because his blind spots even though zeroing in on an incredible foreign dignitary. Sheikh Hasina Prime Minister of Bangladesh would have been the perfect Republic Day Chief Guest this coming year for umpteen reasons nevertheless it obviously didnt occur to Modi to single her available for the honour. I shiver to even speculate whether a visionary and statesman such as Modi is blinded through her religion or male or female or both to pass the girl up? Instead of inviting Uk PM Boris Johnson who also ultimately chickened out Hasina should have been Modis programmed c
Read more

Treadmills for punishment

Image
Treadmills for punishment were introduced in 1818 by an English engineer named Sir William Cubitt, who was the son of a miller. Noting idle prisoners at Bury St Edmunds gaol, he proposed using their muscle power to both cure their idleness and produce useful work. Cubitt's treadmills for punishment usually rotated around a horizontal axis, requiring the user to step upwards, like walking up an endless staircase. Those punished walked around the outside of the wheel holding a horizontal handrail for stability. Punishment treadmills remained in use until the second half of the 19th century; they were typically twenty-foot long paddle wheels with twenty-four steps around a six-foot cylinder. Several prisoners stood side-by-side on a wheel, and had to work six or more hours a day, effectively climbing 5,000 to 14,000 vertical feet (1.5 to 4 km). While the purpose was mainly punitive, the most infamous mill at Brixton Prison was installed in 1821 and used to grind grain to supplement an
Read more