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.
1 The History of the Lawn Mower The first lawn mower was invented in 1830 by a man named Edwin Beard Budding. 2  Budding lived in Gloucestershire, England and was an engineer. Edwin Budding and the Invention of the Lawnmower Perhaps if it had not been for Edwin Budding and his genius invention, Americans may have never developed their love of lawns.