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A reaper is a person or machine that reaps (cuts and gathers) crops when they are ripe. Hand reaping is done by various means, including plucking the ears of grain directly by hand, cutting the grai...
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The cradle was the most efficiant means of cutting grain before McCormick's invention of the reaper. The cradle consisted of a broad scyth with a light frame of four wood fingers attached to it.
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Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) conceived plans for his reaper, built and tested it, ... McCormick's success was partly due to his mechanical inventiveness. But he also was a pioneer in business techniques: easy credit to enable farmers to pay for machines from increased harvests; written performance guarantees;
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Greatest Inventions -- The Mechanical Reaper ... The reaper was a horse-drawn farm implement invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831 to cut small grain crops. It was made obsolete by the binder and later the swather. The mechanical reaper replaced the manual cutting of the crop with scythes and sickles.
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Cyrus Hall McCormick: Inventor. Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 - May 13, 1884) was an American inventor (of Irish descent) who developed the mechanical reaper. ... He began to produce and sell the McCormick reaper, which was in demand by local Virginia farmers. He later opened a factory in Chicago, Illinois,
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Short biography of the inventor of the mechanical reaper, focusing on the story of his invention. ... Mechanical Reaper; Patent Number(s) Patented June 21, 1834; Inducted 1976; Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the mechanical reaper, which combined all the steps that earlier harvesting machines had performed separately.
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Beginning in 1841, the mechanical reaper finally caught on: so much so that McCormick was later forced to move production out of his family farm's blacksmith shop and into a factory in Chicago (1847). For McCormick's machine meant that the prairies of the Midwest could now become the "breadbasket" of the nation.
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The McCormick Family and their Mechanical Reaper ... Who invented the mechanical reaper is still a point of contention between members of the McCormick family descending from the family of Robert Hall McCormick of Walnut Grove in Rockbridge, Virginia. Perhaps the debate lies more between members of the family and the...
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