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Cyrus Hall McCormick portrait, held by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.. Cyrus Hall McCormick was born on February 15, 1809, in Raphine, Virginia.He was the eldest of eight children born to inventor Robert McCormick Jr. and Mary Ann "Polly" Hall.
John Henry Manny (1825–1856) was the inventor of the Manny Reaper, one of various makes of reaper used to harvest grain in the 19th century. Cyrus McCormick III, in his Century of the Reaper, called Manny "the most brilliant and successful of all Cyrus McCormick's competitors," [1] a field of many brilliant people.
The McCormick Reaper was designed by Robert McCormick in Walnut Grove, Virginia. However, Robert became frustrated when he was unable to perfect his idea. His son Cyrus worked to complete the project. The son obtained the patent for "The McCormick Reaper" in 1834. [4]. [5] The McCormick reaper of 1834 had several key elements: [6] [7] a main ...
Cyrus Hall McCormick improved and patented the mechanical reaper, which eventually led to the creation of the combine harvester. The farm is near Steele's Tavern and Raphine , close to the northern border of Rockbridge and Augusta counties in the U.S. state of Virginia , and is currently a museum run by the Virginia Agricultural Experimental ...
Cyrus Hall McCormick Sr., founder of the McCormick business dynasty. Robert McCormick Jr. (1780–1846) was an American inventor who lived in rural Virginia. [1] His maternal grandparents were Scottish immigrants, George Sanderson and Catharine (née Ross) Sanderson, and paternal grandparents were Thomas (1702–1762) and Elizabeth (née Carruth) McCormick, Presbyterian immigrants born in ...
This was because the McCormick reaper lacked a quality unique to Obed Hussey's reaper. Hussey's reaper used a sawlike cutter bar that cut stalks far more effectively than McCormick's. Only once Cyrus McCormick was able to acquire the rights to Hussey's cutter-bar mechanism (around 1850) did a truly revolutionary machine emerge. [15]
Robert Hall McCormick (June 8, 1780 – July 4, 1846) was an American inventor who invented numerous devices including a version of the reaper which his eldest son Cyrus McCormick patented in 1834 and became the foundation of the International Harvester Company.
In 1847, Leander helped Cyrus set up a factory in Cincinnati, Ohio that produced 100 machines. In fall 1848, he moved to Chicago with his wife and infant son to join Cyrus in setting up an even larger factory. Brother William joined them in 1850 in a business in run by Cyrus to manufacture reapers and sell them across the midwestern United States.