Electric
Lawn Mowers
A Brief History on Electric Lawn Mowers
The lawn mower was invented in 1830 by Edwin Beard
Budding, an engineer from Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. He obtained
the idea after seeing a machine in a local cloth mill which used
a cutting cylinder (or bladed reel) mounted on a bench to trim cloth
to make a smooth finish after weaving. Budding realized that a similar
concept would enable the cutting of grass if the mechanism could
be mounted in a wheeled frame to make the blades rotate close to
the lawn's surface. He went into partnership with a local engineer,
John Ferrabee, and together they made mowers in a factory at Stroud.
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