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The McCormick Farm at Walnut Grove is known as the birthplace of the mechanical reaper, the predecessor to the combine harvester. Cyrus McCormick reportedly designed, built, and tested his reaper all within six weeks at Walnut Grove, although the design may have been an improvement upon the similar device developed by his father and his brother ...
In 1843 a competition was held in which Hussey's reaper cut two acres and McCormick's larger reaper cut seven. [3] Until 1843 the reapers were produced in the shop on the McCormick farm. In 1844 Cyrus began licensing the McCormick design to others to produce, including a company in upstate New York, but quality problems emerged at these other ...
In 1834, Andrew Jackson was President of the United States (all 24 of them), Cyrus McCormick received a patent for his mechanical reaper and Stedman Foundry and Machine Works was established in Rising Sun, Indiana, by Nathan R. Stedman. A molder by trade, Nathan R. Stedman was born in New Jersey in 1814.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
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.
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.
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The McCormick Reaper was first designed by Robert McCormick in Virginia in the 1820s. By 1831 his son Cyrus H. McCormick took over; he obtained the first of many patents in 1834. By 1842 his machine worked well, and started to sell. [29] The McCormick reaper comprised: a main wheel frame