The increase in life expectancy during the 20th century is largely due to improvements in child survival; this increase is associated with reductions in infectious disease mortality, due largely to immunization.1 However, infectious diseases remain a major cause of illness, disability, and death.
The First Mowers. The lawn mower was invented in 1830 by Edwin Beard Budding, an engineer from Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. He obtained the idea after seeing a machine in a local cloth mill which used a cutting cylinder (or bladed reel) mounted on a bench to trim cloth to make a smooth finish after weaving.
Re: alamo flail mower in reply to suptscottyb, 05-12-2007 21:52:07. Alamo bought Mott after Mr. Mott was killed landing his plane on his own airstrip. Being a city owned machine it's probably a super heavy duty model with a 4 1/2 inch cutter shaft. Best flail mower made. Mott invented flail mowers. Check for a bent cutter shaft (Very rare) and missing knife holders (Signs of abuse). My dad was the largest dealer of Mott interstaters (3 gang) in the world when they first came out in the 70's.