Reapers

Examples

• At the same time I heard the reapers not a hundred yards behind me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• In 1822 the important improvement of the reciprocating knife bar was made by Ogle, which became a characteristic feature of all subsequent successful reapers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1890 this was increased to 3,000 self-binding harvesters, 4,000 reapers, and 2,000 mowers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The battle of rival reapers had been long and costly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He had the satisfaction of knowing that in the harvest of 1840 three of his reapers were having a trying out. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Dalrymple farms in 1893 had 54,000 acres in wheat, and employed 283 self-binding reapers to harvest the crop. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The total value of mowers and reapers exported in 1890 was $2,092,638. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1855, at a competitive trial of reapers near Paris, three machines were entered. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is not to be supposed that no rival reapers were put upon the market. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• To-day the total number of self-binding harvesters, reapers and mowers in use is estimated to be two millions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• English journals and writers of that period, without a single exception, spoke of the American reapers which were exhibited as completely successful. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Up to this time, about eleven thousand patents have been granted in the United States, all presumably on separate improvements in mowers and reapers alone. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the United States, inventions in mowers and reapers began to make their appearance about 1820. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In 1885 more than 100,000 self-binding harvesters and 150,000 reapers and mowers were built and sold. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The growth subsequent to 1890 is well attested by the exports for 1899, which for mowers and reapers was $9,053,830, or more than four times what it was in 1890. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• McCormick saw that he must build his reapers in a more central place. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He did advertise in the _Lexington Union_ in September, 1833, offering reapers for sale at fifty dollars; but there were no answers to his advertisements. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Ogden gave McCormick $25,000 for a half interest in the business of making reapers, and started at once to build a factory. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There were exported in the year 1880 about 800 self-binding harvesters, 2,000 reapers, and 1,000 mowers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Then the different makes of reapers would show how many acres of grain they could cut in an afternoon before an audience of the neighboring farmers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The description of Palladius is as follows: In the plains of Gaul, they use this quick way of reaping, and without reapers cut large fields with an ox in one day. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Many other patents were granted from time to time until 1870, when the foundation features of all reapers had been invented and substantially perfected. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But it was not only difficult to obtain the necessary materials for building reapers on the remote Virginia farm, it was almost impossible to ship the machines ordered in time for the harvests. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Nearly all of these early reapers relied upon scythes or cutters with a rotary motion or vibrating shears. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In 1840 it is said there were but three reapers made. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This plan was very clumsy, but improvements were made so rapidly that by 1860 the market was filled with various patterns of self-raking reapers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Harvester has sometimes been used as a broad term to cover both mowers and reapers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Trick machines of unwieldy strength were built secretly, and reapers were driven into growths of young trees, and were fastened together and then pulled apart to prove which was the stronger. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He gave them a chance to pay for the reapers with the proceeds of their harvests. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Reapers and mowers were lighter in construction, and far less in cost, and stronger and more effective in every way. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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