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2. McCormick reaper - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Abraham Lincoln's patent - Wikipedia

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   Lincoln was at times a patent attorney and was familiar with the patent application process as well as patent lawsuit proceedings. Among his notable patent law experiences as a result of his patent was litigation over the mechanical reaper; both he and his future Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, provided counsel for John Henry Manny, an ...

4. Robert McCormick (Virginia inventor) - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Leander J. McCormick - Wikipedia

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   His eldest brother Cyrus received the patent in 1834 and Leander developed multiple improvements to the reaper and received patents for two of them, with the remainder being patented by his brother Cyrus. Following the death of their father, Leander owned a third share of the reaper business, which amounted to 75 machines in 1846. [1]

6. Patent leather - Wikipedia

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   Riding boot from 1910–1920s. An early reference to patent leather is in the 1793 British periodical The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, which notes, in an article entitled "Hand's patent leather", that "a gentleman of the name of Hand" in Birmingham, England, obtained a patent for preparing flexible leather having a glaze and polish that renders it impervious to water and need only be ...

7. McCormick family - Wikipedia

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   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 ...