aug 31, 1830 - Lawn Mower

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Edwin Beard Budding, an English engineer, invented the first lawn mover. He was inspired by a cloth cutting machine in a local factory and decided that the same mechanism could be used to cut grass if it was mounted on wheels. He partnered up with John Ferrabee, a local engineer and began making lawn mowers. Their design of lawn mower was made of cast iron and was manually pushed. It wasn't until 1900 that self-propelled engines made it to the markets

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