PART TWO – Heritage
The earliest reference to these bicycle lawnmowers seems
to date to about 1895 when one was exhibited at the New York
State Fair. That story was syndicated and appeared in various
Australian newspapers.

This was never presented as an 'invention' but as a 'novelty'.
Some folks, in these modern times, seem to have forgotten that.

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In the gallery below I include a bicycle-sickle bar mower reported in 1903.
So, these things are not so novel anymore.

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