Edwin Beard Budding

Edwin Beard Budding born (* 1795 as the son of a small landowner in Gloucestershire; ibid † 1846, from the effects of a heart attack ) was an English engineer and inventor of the lawn mower and the Englishman.

Life and work

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter he turned to metalworking. Between 1825 and 1830 he designed a multi-barrel pepper box pistol. In a textile mill he saw how the fabric was cut after weaving with a cutting cylinder to achieve a smooth surface. Budding realized that the concept of a could be transferred to a second stationary rotating blade on the cutting of grass had to be mowed until then with a scythe. On 31 Aug. 1830 he reported to the mower and patent whose blade width was 480 mm. Since the chain had not been invented, the force was translated by a gear drive from cast iron. The inventor was held by some contemporaries for mistaken and proven why his machine at night - which is why he was considered a lunatic soon. Tests in London's Regent 's Park showed, however, that could be saved six to eight gardener with his invention.

Together with John Ferrabee he built in the factory, the Phoenix Iron Works in Stroud, the first lawn mower. During Budding was responsible for the technical development, Ferrabee care of the marketing. In 1832 they sold the patent to the company Ransomes in Ipswich, which until 1858 settled more than 7000 Budding lawnmower to 1840 over one thousand, and the invention further developed. Thanks to this invention was the maintenance of large lawns that needed to be mowed to date with the scythe, not a privilege of the nobility more; large, close-cropped lawns in parks or sports grounds seem obvious today, but to entertain them, the invention is technically and financially possible only since Buddings. The designer himself applied the machine with the remark: "Country gentlemen june find in using my machine Themselves, to amusing, useful, and healthy exercise. "

From Budding invented mowers are in Stroud Museum, the London Science Museum, the Museum lawnmowers in Southport and in Milton Keynes issued museum. With the " Edwin Budding Award" instituted by the company Ransomes outstanding technology developments will be awarded in golf.

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