The Lawn Mower has Come a Long Way

Edwin Beard Budding lawnmower

From the lowly and bulky manual contraption with rotating blades that cut grass, to a high tech all-around garden device, the lawn mower has come a long way.

The first lawn mower was invented in 1827 by an English engineer named Edwin Beard Budding. He was able to conceptualize the device while visiting a textile factory and observed a machine cutting nap from fabric and thought it could be adapted to cut grass.

Budding got to the drawing board and came up with the first and standard design of what is nowadays the most common of rotary mowers. Its basic framework resembled a bulky push cart with a set of wheels and rotary blades that are activated by a dragging motion on expansive grass-covered grounds and wide gardens.

Lawn Mowers An Introduction

Lawn mowers are widely used in different countries to clean the gardens and cut the grass short. There are many different kinds of mowers available in the market that are made up of revolving blades at an equal length.

Lawn mowers use a blade that is rotating all the time when the motor is turned on and this chops the grass short. The mowers whose blades move in circular manner are known as rotatory mowers and have blades around the circular axis. There are different types and kinds of mowers present in the market today.