Badminton Reference
Research, Articles, Histories and other references relevant to Badminton.
- Sport England is England's
national organization to promote sports. They provide guidance for many
sports including Badminton.
- Sport Scotland is Scotland's
national organization to promote sports. They provide guidance and
technical details for many sports including
Badminton.
- Related Research
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National Badminton Museum of
England - The definitive badminton museum with a very extensive
collection dating from the very early days til present. Collection is housed
at the National Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes since 2003. Extensive
online material also starting in 2005.
[05JUL2020]
- Badminton Museum of
Ireland - online collection until a site is found. Online since 2010.
[30SEP2014]
-
USA Badminton Museum - digital museum for
everything Badminton in the United States [27JAN2022]
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New Zealand
Badminton Museum- in development phase, looking for artifacts and a
home.
[30SEP2014]
Serious research has been done by various groups over the years. A common
and very difficult topic is flight characteristics of shuttlecocks. A sampling
of research is included here- much more can be found elsewhere.
more.
Some serious engineering work is required for badminton. This is
especially true for rackets which have evolved greatly over the years and which
have very demanding requirements.
- Designing The
Worlds Best Racket. Maxine Kwan, PhD Thesis 2010, Institute of
Mechanical Engineering, Aalborg University, Denmark.
- "Bird2" Hybrid Shuttle. Gordon
Willis and Steve Lambert launched Bird
Sports around 2007 with a goal of modernizing shuttle design (i.e.
another effort to make a synthetic shuttle that actually flies like a feather
shuttle). They designed a hybrid shuttle (cork base, dual-section synthetic
skirt) that they call "Bird2" and as of 2014 are apparently looking to go
into production and roll this out to the Badminton world. [29AUG2014]
There have been many patents related to shuttlecock design. Not
surprisingly most relate to synthetic shuttles. Below is a small sampling of
interesting patents, primarily filed with US
Patent Office. There are many more available from patent offices around
the world. Note that many of these ideas were never commercially successful and
that many of these were also patented in multiple countries.
William Charles Carlton pioneered much of the development of modern rackets and synthetic shuttlecocks.
Here are some of his inventions through the years.
- US2626805- Shuttlecock and Method of
Making, 1950. Carlton examines one-piece moldings.
- US2626806- Shuttlecock, 1950.
Carlton's early ideas for skirt design.
- USD163367- Shuttlecock. 1950.
Alternate pattern for skirt molding
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