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The lawn mower was invented in 1830 by Edwin Beard Budding of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. [1] Budding's mower was designed primarily to cut the grass on sports grounds and extensive gardens, as a superior alternative to the scythe, and was granted a British patent on August 31, 1830.
County Route 46 (CR 46) is a major county road in eastern Suffolk County, New York, in the United States. It runs south-to-north from CR 75 in Smith Point County Park (part of the Fire Island National Seashore ) to New York State Route 25A (NY 25A) near the border of Shoreham and Wading River .
"The work or shock-resisting ability is greatest in wide-ringed wood that has from 5 to 14 rings per inch (rings 1.8-5 mm thick), is fairly constant from 14 to 38 rings per inch (rings 0.7–1.8 mm thick), and decreases rapidly from 38 to 47 rings per inch (rings 0.5–0.7 mm thick).
Construction of the first macadamized road in the United States (1823). In the foreground, workers are breaking stones "so as not to exceed 6 ounces [170 g] in weight or to pass a two-inch [5 cm] ring". [75] There were only a few roads outside of cities at the beginning of the 19th century, but turnpikes were being built.
Wood was the son of Aaron and Rebecca Wood and married Bessie A. Parsons in 1842 and they had two sons. Bessie died in 1886 and he married Elizabeth Warren in 1888 with whom he had a son, Walter A. Wood, Jr., and a daughter, Julia N. Wood. [4]