Flymo a hovercraft. The operator can then more easily move the mower as it floats on this cushion over the grass. Hover mowers are necessarily light in order to achieve the air cushion and typically have plastic bodies with an electric motor. The lack of any wheels enables the mower to be more easily maneuvered around objects. Flymo has also sold various lawn tractors and push mowers, among other lawn & garden equipment. Other products include: Flymo Flymo is a hover mower invented by Karl Dahlman. Dahlman invented the mower in 1964 after seeing Sir Christopher Cockerell's Hovercraft machine. "Flymo" is
The Gardeners' Chronicle later also became editor. Prominent contributors included Charles Darwin and Joseph Hooker. By 1851, the circulation of "The Gardeners' Chronicle" was given as 6500. Compared with that of the far more eminent "Observer" at 6230, and "The Economist" at 3826, "The Gardeners' Chronicle" did astonishingly well. Possibly these figures include the Chronicle's large international readership. It was noted for its large advertising section and when the glass tax was abolished in 1845 and the huge interest generated by the Great Exhibition made personal, small-scale greenhouses possible, it became full of adverts for these, many designed by Paxton himself, and from