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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. As Cyrus's father saw the potential of the design for a mechanical reaper, he ...
Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. (May 16, 1859 – June 2, 1936) was an American businessman. He was president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from 1884 to 1902. [ 1 ] His tenure was marked by bitter conflict with the union, culminating in the death of two striking workers on May 3, 1886, the event which precipitated the Haymarket affair .
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 ...
Cyrus McCormick: 1809 Mechanical reaper [15] 1976 Enrico Fermi: 1901 Nuclear fission [18] 1976 Rudolf Diesel: 1858 Internal-combustion engine [19] 1976 Charles Hard Townes * 1915 Laser [20] 1977 Charles Steinmetz: 1865 Alternating current [21] 1977 Edwin H. Land: 1909 Polaroid [22] 1977 George Eastman: 1854 Photography [23] 1977 Lee De Forest ...
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.
She filed a petition in the Los Angeles Superior Court to have her name legally changed to Miley Ray Cyrus in March 2008 when she was 15, according to court documents obtained by TODAY.com. Her ...
Tish Cyrus is married to her hall pass, Dominic Purcell. The mother of five opened up about how she ended up marrying the "Prison Break" star in a Feb. 7 appearance on the podcast "Call Her Daddy ...
The Cyrus family drama continues to unfold.After a source shared with ET that Tish Cyrus and her youngest daughter, Noah Cyrus, had been estranged since Tish started dating -- and eventually ...