Mccormick

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• McCormick, of Virginia, and Obed Hussey, of Maryland, were the men who brought the reaper to a condition of practical utility. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1831 came McCormick’s reaper, the first practical machine of its kind ever taken into the field. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Ogden accepted, and McCormick became sole owner of the business. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Into such a setting Cyrus Hall McCormick was born in 1809, the same year that saw the birth of Lincoln. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In the spring of 1851 McCormick placed his reaper on exhibition at the World’s Fair in London. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• McCormick’s machine had two cutters or knives, reciprocated by cranks in opposite directions to each other. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The reaper was a very vital factor in the development of that country, and McCormick deserved the credit of being one of the greatest profit-builders of the land. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In 1881 McCormick, also, and Champion began building the Appleby binder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• By the next year McCormick was pushing his Gorham binder on the market, and the farmers who had wavered in their allegience to his reaper were returning to the McCormick fold. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• During all these years from 1831 to 1844 Mr. McCormick was diligently at work changing, testing and experimenting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• McCormick started on a trip through the middle West, and what he saw convinced him that his reaper would soon be an absolute necessity on every farm. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• McCormick was deep in a study of this matter when one day a man named James Withington came to him from Wisconsin, and announced that he had a machine that could automatically bind grain. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• McCormick at once sent one of his men to the inventor’s Wisconsin home, and, with many apologies, begged him to come back. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Many men had tried to lighten the farmer’s labor in cutting grain, and Cyrus McCormick’s father had long had the ambition to invent a reaper. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In 1875 McCormick began putting out harvesters of the Marsh type. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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