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In 1871, Joseph Lessler of Buffalo, New York, patented the first modern ‘lawn sprinkler’. He described it as a “portable water fountain and sprinkler”. While ancient irrigation methods existed, they were mostly for agriculture, not lawns. https://patents.google.com/patent/US121949A/en https://www.agrivi.com/blog/top-5-reasons-why-successful-farmers-use-sprinkler-systems/ https://www.encyclopedia.com/manufacturing/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/lawn-sprinkler https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/irrigation/
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