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1 paź 2024 · Cyrus McCormick, American industrialist and inventor who is generally credited with the development of the mechanical reaper. His invention embodied the principles essential to all subsequent grain-cutting machines and was useful in reducing the labor costs associated with grain harvesting.
- Obed Hussey
Obed Hussey was a U.S. inventor of a full-sized grain reaper...
- King Camp Gillette
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- Clarence Birdseye
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- Cyrus Hall McCormick
Responsible in large part for liberating farmworkers from...
- Obed Hussey
In inventing the reaper, Cyrus McCormick set in motion events that would profoundly affect farm life and rural communities and that helped to make possible the technological and mechanized society in which most of the developed world finds itself.
McCormick has been simplistically credited as the single inventor of the mechanical reaper. He was, however, one of several designing engineers who produced successful models in the 1830s.
1 maj 1981 · Cyrus Hall McCormick, a 22-year-old Virginian, gave America its first step toward farm mechanization when he invented the reaper 150 years ago this spring. He first showed it publicly in July 1831, in a field near Steele’s Tavern, not far from the valley of Walnut Grove, where the family farm lay.
1 lip 2014 · Definition and Summary: The McCormick reaper was a mechanical horse-drawn reaping machine invented by Cyrus McCormick in 1831. The McCormick reaper speeded the process of harvesting wheat and other small crops by replacing the manual process of cutting of grain crops using scythes and sickles to harvesting with a machine.
8 wrz 2024 · McCormick's mechanical reaper, during a competition held at an English farm in July 1851, outperformed a British-made reaper. When McCormick's mechanical reaper was returned to the Crystal Palace, the site of the Great Exhibition, word had spread.
McCormick revolutionized agriculture and ultimately all of society with his invention of the reaper in 1831, a machine that made possible for the first time the mechanical harvesting of standing ripe grain.
