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Throughout Europe (coming from England) a new form of garden maintenance spread in the 18th century - landscape maintenance with intensively cared for parks in the vicinity of the castle. Manual mowing with a scythe was a gigantic effort. At the same time, sports such as tennis, football, croquet & cricket or rugby, all played on grass, became increasingly popular in England.
The English textile engineer Edwin Beard Budding (1795 - 1846) realised that no improvement was possible on the scythe. When he saw a machine in a weaving mill which, after weaving, guided the fabric along a fixed blade and cut it, he had the idea of applying the same principle to lawn cutting. So in 1830 he applied for a patent for the lawn mower he had invented in 1827 and began to produce the first cylinder mowers.
The Ransomes company bought the patent from him and began factory production in 1832.
Until the motorization in 1902, horses were also used to pull large implements. Some of the animals had leather shoes pulled over their hooves to avoid damaging the lawn.
Gasoline-powered lawnmowers were first produced in the USA in 1919 by Colonel Edwin George.
This was followed by the invention of the rotary mower (sickle mower) in the late 1920s or ride-on mowers after World War I, which were commercially manufactured after the 1960s.
From 1995 and 1998, the first lawn mowing robots (sickle mowers) were available and by the end of 2005 they represented the second largest category of robots in the household.
Twenty years will pass until, in the years 2017 to 2020, the cooperation between experts in the field of green space management and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts www.hslu.ch will result in thousands of hours of research and development to create the first fully electric cylinder mower that can mow autonomously with a pattern on offset paths, quietly and with zero CO2 emissions on a battery charge of 16,000 m2 of green space, while protecting the soil.
