Lawn mower
Cortacésped
- Date
- 1830 · confidence high
- Place
- Thrupp (Stroud), Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Edwin Beard Budding (with John Ferrabee)
- People
- 👤 Edwin Beard Budding1795–1846
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A cylinder machine with helical blades, inspired by cloth-shearing frames, which cut grass evenly without a scythe. It made possible the bourgeois lawn and sports pitches.
Budding also invented the adjustable spanner (1842).
What it led to
- The suburban garden and the lawn as a middle-class symbol
- Lawn sports: tennis (1874), and codified football and cricket
- The garden machinery industry (Ransomes, 1832)
Built on
- Cloth-shearing machine of the wool industry
- Scythe
Made possible
- Motor lawnmower (1902)
- Standardised sports pitches