Further improvements of the lawn mower -- Part 1

It took more than a decade, and further innovation and creativity, can be made from animal, sixty years of steam-powered mowers built before drawing machine. In the 1850s, the son of Thomas Green and Leeds introduce a mower called Silens Messor (meaning chopping machine), which uses a chain drive is emitted from the rear roller knife cylinder power. These machines are lower than the gear-driven machine lighter and quieter before them, even though they are slightly more expensive.In the popular movement rising lawn help to promote the spread of the invention. Mower become a more effective alternative to the sickle and domesticated livestock grazing.

Mower manufacturing in the 1860s and took off. 1862, Ferrabee company is making all kinds of roll sizes of eight models. He produced more than 5,000 machines produced until 1863 to stop the first grass boxes were flat disk, but their present shape in the 1860s. Lancashire James Sumner patented his machine in 1893, the first steam-powered mower gasoline burn and / or paraffin (kerosene) as a fuel. It took several hours, these are the warm-up of heavy machinery working pressure.After numerous advances, these machines are sold by the Stott Manchester and Sumner fertilizer and insecticide company. They have control of the company is called steam Leyland Motor Corporation.

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