Mad Raq Power Weave Tennis Racquet
date: label: Date made
content: 1980
name: label: user
content: Hauptman, Madeline
label: patentee
content: Hauptman, Madeline
label: maker
content: Mad Raq Sports Ltd.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Mad Raq Power Weave tennis racquet is red and blue graphite with gray plastic handle. Gray nylon string in power-weave design. This racquet was designed by the donor, Madeline Hauptman of Mad Raq Sports, Ltd. The racquet is uniquely strung with patented three directional strung pattern. This was developed to improve one's tennis game by increasing power, spin, control, and string life while reducing shock transmitted to the player's arm by 30%. This was inspired by the American Indian snowshoe which Hauptman calculated a formula from to determine where to drill the holes in a tennis racquet in order to create the three directional string pattern. She called the pattern MAD RAQ (Madeline's racquet) and received a patent on the racquet which can be used in tennis, squash, racquetball, and badminton racquets.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Tennis
label: level of sport
content: recreational
label: web subject
content: Invention
label: web subject
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Madeline Hauptman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0668.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0668.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0668
objectType: label: Object Name
content: racquet, tennis
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: graphite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nylon (strings material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gray (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 27 in; 27.94 cm x 68.58 cm