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Scientific American May 14, 1881 Woodcut image The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, Chicago
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Scientific American May 14, 1881 Woodcut image The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, Chicago
1847 McCormick Machine
Scientific American May 14, 1881 Woodcut image The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, Chicago
McCormick Harvesting Machine Company 1881
Scientific American Front Page May 14 1881 McCormick: Scientific American May 14, 1881 woodcut on front page of Manufacture of harvesting Machine McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, Chicago
McCormick HARVESTING MACHINES.
Reaper 1846 McCormick
Scientific American July 25, 1896
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Reaper of 1845
First placing of the raker upon the machine.
Reaper 1831 McCormick
Scientific American July 25, 1896
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Invented and built by Cyrus H. McCormick in 1831
Agricultural Machinery in the 1800's
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.
Scientific American July 25, 1896
Before the building of the reaper it could be truly said that those who earned their bread by the labor of the harvest did so by the sweat of their brows. In the heat of midsummer, without protection from the beating sun, in a stooping position, the toilers of the world gathered the harvests. So excessive and trying was the labor that the wages at harvest time were double those of other seasons of the year, and the farmer engaged his help months in advance for this rushing period.
