Kicksled
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, 1922 The kicksled or spark is a small sled consisting of a chair mounted on a pair of flexible metal runners that extend backward to about twice the chair's length. The sled is propelled by kicking ( or in the Scandinavian languages) the ground by foot. There is a handlebar attached to the top of the chair back.
, 1922]] The kicksled or spark is a small sled consisting of a chair mounted on a pair of flexible metal runners that extend backward to about twice the chair's length. The sled is propelled by kicking ( or in the Scandinavian languages) the ground by foot. There is a handlebar attached to the top of the chair back.
Names
Kicksled is a direct translation of the Finnish word . Estonian calls it either a 'pushsled' ( ) or 'Finnish sled' ( ). In Russian, it is known as the 'Finnish sled' ( ). Some other possible translations are kicker and chair-sled.
History
The first definite record of a kicksled was in a newspaper in northern Sweden around 1870. The kicksleds of that era had stiff wooden runners and were heavy. In 1909 the design of the modern kicksled with flexible metal runners was introduced by the Swedish factory Orsasparken, which quickly became standard in Sweden, Finland and Norway. A significant change took place in the development of the kicksled, when electrical engineer Oskari Terhi from Salo Finland developed iron legs for it in 1900. In 1893 the French language Popular science magazine, La Nature, described the kicksled in the article "Un Traineau Suédois: Le Sparkstötting". In 1894 this article was translated into English and published as "A Swedish Sled :The Sparkstotting", in the magazine Scientific American".
Further reading
Sparkstöttingar by Göran Rosander; Stockholm; Nordiska Museet; 1995;
References
External links
Kicksled videos Article on the Kicksled, Stowe Today Kicksled Handbook from Finland (from Wayback archive 2019-07-24) Spark or Kicksled (23 kB) Historical References in Swedish or Norwegian: Kicksled racing in 1890 Sweden Museum in Sweden with earliest known article about kicksled The kicksled page of Nansen Produkter AS
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