1839-12-28 Inventors Advocate - ingenious Mower

THE INVENTORS' ADVOCATE,  AND  PATENTEES' RECORDER; A BRITISH AND FOREIGN MISCELLANY INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES, AND THE FINE ARTS. VOLUME I.   AUGUST 17-DECEMBER 28, 1839.

LONDON  ~ ENGLAND

PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETORS BY  WILLIAM KIDD, 7, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

ORDERS RECEIVED BY ALL BOOKSELLERS AND NEWSMEN.          M.DCCC.XXXIX.

NEW INVENTIONS, ETC.

A MOWING MACHINE.

An ingenious carpenter at Ingatestone, named Groom, is engaged in the construction of a machine for mowing, &c., to which he has long directed attention; and our informant, who has seen the model, states, that hopes may be entertained of a successful application of the principle. It is to be driven by hand, in the same way as Budding's machine for mowing lawns, but will work as well over hills and through valleys as on level ground; and he calculates that it will cut as wide a breadth in a day as seven or eight ordinary laborers. The work is performed by two or three sets of revolving scythes or knives, put in motion, our correspondent adds, by somewhat complicated machinery.-Essex Herald.