Reaper

Examples

• The reaper is still used extensively, especially in foreign countries. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• After the reaper, the mowing machine came naturally. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• 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.
• In 1828, Lane, of Maine, combined the reaper and thresher. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The reaper to be of real use must dispose of the grain properly as well as shear the stalks. 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.
• 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.
• It is said that the self-binding reaper has reduced the cost of harvesting grain to less than half a cent a bushel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• That evening he drove the reaper to the court-house square and explained its working to the towns people. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• 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.
• Now it seemed as if the reaper was complete, and nothing could be added to increase its efficiency. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The next, and last, reaper of this period was invented by Patrick Bell of Carmyllie, Scotland, in 1826. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But all this has been changed by the advent of the reaper, and ere long the grain cradle will hang on the walls of the museum as an ethnological specimen only. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1822, Henry Ogle, a schoolmaster of Rennington, assisted by Thomas and Joseph Brown, invented the so-called Ogle reaper. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• 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.

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