Powell Quicksilver skateboard designed by George Powell and used by Stacy Peralta
date: label: date made
content: 1977
name: label: user
content: Peralta, Stacy
label: maker
content: Powell, George
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The Powell Quicksilver skateboard has as a hard rock maple core, laminated with aluminum. The aluminum Tracker trucks were designed by Larry Balma and the yellow polyurethane wheels were a Powell design. George Powell designed and manufactured this board, which was used by Stacy Peralta, a pro skateboarder in 1977. The Quicksilver was the first deck Powell made and was a successful design, but the rapid changing market made it "out of style" less than a year after it was introduced. According to Powell, "the quicksilver utilizes very high strength 7000 series aluminum alloy skins very low elongation, epoxied to hard maple cores to achieve the best strength to weight ratio. The result was a deck that turned quicker than a fiber flex and was a little stronger and less resistant to breaking."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Santa Barbara
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: skateboarding
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: Subject
content: Invention
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Skateboarding
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content: Sports & Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Powell Corporation thru Mr. George Powell, President
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0738.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0738
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0738.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: skateboard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gray (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: urethane (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 6 1/2 in x 28 3/4 in; 10.16 cm x 16.51 cm x 73.025 cm