By: Ardis E. Parshall - May 04, 2016 George D. Munsing (1858-1921) of New York was quite the tinkerer. He developed what may have been the world’s first riding lawnmower. He invented a process for extracting fibers from pineapple leaves and machine-knitting them into fabric, an industry that never took off but which was looked on for a time as the next coming thing for the pineapple growers of Florida. Whatever the merits of his othe...
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