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18th May 1830: The world’s first lawnmower licensed for manufacture by Edwin Budding
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-05-17 21:05:43
Description: British inventor Edwin Budding went into partnership with foundry owner John Ferrabee to manufacture the world’s first lawn mower. Edwin Budding grew up near the Gloucestershire town of Stroud, where he often saw teams of labourers using scythes to manually cut the lawns of the landed gentry. The labour-intensive nature of this work would later inspire him to create the ubiquitous machine. Having begun work in an iron foundry as a pattern maker, Budding came across a mechanical napping machine created by John Lewis in 1815 that was used to trim fibres from the surface of woven cloth to produce an ...
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