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On May 3, 1831, a patent was issued in the United States to William Manning for the reaper of essentially the same design. On December 31, 1833, a similar cutter patent was issued to Obed Hussey . A vibrating cutter was patented by Cyrus McCormick on June 21, 1834.
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 ...
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. (1780–1846) and Mary Ann "Polly" Hall (1780–1853).
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.
Typical 20th-century reaper, a tractor-drawn Fahr machine. A reaper is a farm implement or person that reaps (cuts and often also gathers) crops at harvest when they are ripe. Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass. The first documented reaping machines were Gallic reapers that were used in Roman times in what would become modern-day France.
Hours after the St. Petersburg City Council approved spending $23.7 million to repair Tropicana Field after it was damaged during Hurricane Milton, the council reversed its decision in a second vote.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. manufacturing contracted at a moderate pace in November, with orders growing for the first time in eight months and factories facing significantly lower prices for inputs.
A black-and-white photograph of The Reaper by Joan Miró (1937). The mural was painted with oil on celotex insulation panels. The original work was lost in 1938. The Reaper ("El segador"), also known as Catalan peasant in revolt ("El campesino catalán en rebeldía" (es); "El pagès català en rebel·lia" (ca)) was a large mural created by Joan Miró in Paris in 1937 for the Spanish Republic ...