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A snow blower, snowblower, or snow thrower is a machine for removing snow from an area where it is not wanted, such as a driveway, sidewalk, roadway, or runway. A typical snowblower has one or more augers that move the snow into an impeller which blows the snow to another location or into a truck to be hauled away.

Snowblowers range from the very small, capable of removing only several inches (a few cm) of light snow in a 18 to 20 inch (45 to 50 cm) path, to very large, capable of moving 10 foot (3 m) wide swaths of heavy snow up to 6 feet (2 m) deep. The former are powered by small electric motors. The latter are powered by large diesel engines of over 1000 horsepower (750 kW).

1 History

Arthur Sicard is credited as the inventor of the snow blower. In 1925 Sicard created a vehicle which could remove snow from the roadways of Montreal, Canada.

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