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Feb 3, 1200
The Scythe first used in Europe for farming and cutting grass around the 1200-1300 AD. This was how people maintained there lawns up to the invention and distribution of push mowers in the early 20th century.
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The first lawn mowers come around.
Edwin budding invented the first lawn mower. -
Around this time when lawn mowers were pulled and used by animals.
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up to 1870 lawn mowers were horse drawn or took two men (one pulling and one pushing).
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In 1870 Elwood McGuire designed a walk behind pushmower
Picture is of a 1888 Reel push mower -
The scythe was used in force until about the end of the ninteenth century.
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in 1893 James Sumner patients the first steam lawn mower
Steam mowers during this time were very large and cumbersome, took long times to work, and had to be pulled by a horse or oxen. -
the first gasoline powered push mowers came to America in 1919 by Colonel Edwin George.
This mower is from 1925 -
Rotary push mowers came around by late1920's
this is a picture of an early rotary push lawn mower. -
A 1950's Push mower
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A mid 1990's Push mower
This is a 1994 Lawn Boy push mower. this was on eof the best mowers I have ever used. My Grandfather had a lawn boy mower when I was growing up. -
My 2010 Weed Eater push mower
it amazes me how much and yet how little lawn mowers have changed over the last 100 years. I cant wait to see what they look like in a nother 50 years.
