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Edwin Beard Budding patented the first lawn mower in 1830, revolutionizing lawn maintenance. Before this, lawns were a sign of wealth and required manual labor or grazing animals. Budding’s design was based on cloth-cutting devices and was a financial success, with over 1,000 sold by 1840.
The first lawn mower was patented in 1830 by a mechanic named Edwin Beard Budding. Before lawn mowers were invented, all cultivated grass was either cut by hand or grazed by animals. Lawns were considered a sign of great wealth, as they required considerable man hours to maintain. Budding designed his machine based on similar devices already used to cut cloth. He was presumably worried that he would be ridiculed by his neighbors and therefore only used his prototype at night. However, Budding’s lawn mower was a financial success and over 1,000 of them had been manufactured and sold by 1840.
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A survey of satellite data indicated that the combined total area of farmland in the United States is roughly equal to the size of New York State.
