The History of Lawn Mowers

Butting showed that the same general principle that worked for cutting back the nap on cloth could, in fact be used to cut grass. Budding formed a partnership with an engineer named john farraby, who owned a company called phoenix iron works. Farraby had the manufacturing rights to produce budding's design and fronted the costs to develop the prototype. One of the earliest lawn mowers that the pair produced went to the london zoo, and another one became the property of oxford university.