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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.
The new reaper only required two horses working in a non-strenuous manner, a man to work the machine, and another man to drive. In addition, the Hussey Reaper left an even and clean surface after its use. [10] Cyrus McCormick claimed that his reaper was actually invented in 1831, giving him the best claim to the general design of a working reaper.
Bell invented the reaping machine while working on his father's farm. His interest in mechanics led him to work on a horse powered mechanical reaper for speeding up the harvest. In 1828 his machine was used with success on his father's farm and others in the district.
The McCormick Reaper Legend: The True Story of a Great Invention (2008); McCormick III, Cyrus Hall. The Century of the Reaper (1933), popular history online; McClelland, Peter. Sowing Modernity: America’s First Agricultural Revolution (Cornell University Press, 1997); wide-ranging history of major farm tools in Europe and U.S. Marsh, Barbara.
Robert McCormick Jr. (June 8, 1780 – July 4, 1846) was an American inventor who invented numerous devices including a version of the reaper.His eldest son Cyrus McCormick patented this in 1834 and it became the foundation of the International Harvester Company.
Prior to the invention of the reaper, farmers could harvest only 0.5-acre (0.20 ha) a day; using this machine, farmers could harvest 12 acres (4.9 ha) a day, with less manual labor. The mechanical reaper did not require a family to toil all day to harvest crops.
Obed Hussey (1792–1860) was an American inventor. His most notable invention was a reaping machine, patented in 1833, that was a rival of a similar machine, patented in 1834, produced by Cyrus McCormick. Hussey also invented a steam plow, a machine for grinding out hooks and eyes, a mill for grinding corn and cobs, a husking machine, a ...
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.