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Developer of the indoor skiing machine Ed Pauls passes away

Developer of the indoor skiing machine Ed Pauls passes away

THE death has taken place of Ed Pauls who developed the indoor skiiing machine. He was 80.

Mr. Pauls hit upon his idea after becoming fed up with running on icey roads in his home state of Minnesota.

He set out to design a cross-training machine and the result was to become a world-wide success.

But Mr. Pauls, who was a keen cross-country skier, had not set out at that point turn his idea into a commercial venture. It was only after a friend urged him to make the machine available to others that he took action.

After patenting his machine, which combined sliding wooden tracks with a puley system, he set up his NordicTrack company in the mid-1970s from the family garage.

The device caught the boom in home exercise equipment and by the time Mr. Pauls sold the business in 1986 they were employing 400 people and had sold over half-a-million units.

 

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