Saturday, October 23, 2010

The first lawn mowers

Edwin Beard Budding invented the first grass cutting lawn mower in Great Britain in 1830. Budding developed his idea for the mower after seeing a machine in a local cloth mill with a cutting cylinder mounted on a bench to trim cloth. Budding's lawn mower design required two people: one person to push and one to pull.
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