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  1. Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.

    Cyrus McCormick - Wikipedia

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  3. Cyrus McCormick | Biography, Invention, Reaper, & Facts

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    Cyrus McCormick, in full Cyrus Hall McCormick, (born February 15, 1809, Rockbridge county, Virginia, U.S.—died May 13, 1884, Chicago, Illinois), American industrialist and inventor who is generally credited with the development (from 1831) of the mechanical reaper.

  4. Cyrus McCormick - Wikipedia

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    Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.

  5. Cyrus McCormick | Lemelson

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    Cyrus Hall McCormick was born in 1809. He grew up on his family's 532-acre farm, "Walnut Grove", which was located north of Lexington, Virginia. As a boy, McCormick had a talent for both agriculture and inventing. At the age of 15, he invented a lightweight cradle for carting harvested grain (1824).

  6. Cyrus McCormick, Inventor of the Mechanical Reaper - ThoughtCo

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    Updated on July 28, 2019 Cyrus McCormick (February 15, 1809–May 13, 1884), a Virginia blacksmith, invented the mechanical reaper in 1831. Essentially a horse-drawn machine that harvested wheat, it was one of the most important inventions in the history of farm innovation.

  7. Cyrus Hall McCormick summary | Britannica

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    Cyrus Hall McCormick, (born Feb. 15, 1809, Rockbridge county, Va., U.S.—died May 13, 1884, Chicago, Ill.), U.S. industrialist and inventor. He is generally credited with the development (from 1831) of the mechanical reaper, which revolutionized the harvesting of grain.

  8. How the McCormick Reaper Revolutionized Farming - ThoughtCo

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    Updated on June 21, 2019 Cyrus McCormick, a blacksmith in Virginia, developed the first practical mechanical reaper to harvest grain in 1831 when he was only 22 years old. His machine, at first a local curiosity, proved to be enormously important.

  9. Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884) | American Experience | PBS

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    An American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and won the Gold Medal at London's World's Fair in the Crystal Palace.

  10. Cyrus McCormick: The Father of Modern Agriculture

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    Cyrus McCormick: The Father of Modern Agriculture. by Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher. At the age of 22, Cyrus McCormick created the first grain-harvesting machine in the United States: the horse-drawn mechanical reaper, which made it possible to harvest large fields faster and therefore increase crop yields.

  11. A Brief Biography of Cyrus Hall McCormick, (1809-1884 ...

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    Cyrus H. McCormick (1809-1884) was an industrialist and inventor of the first commercially successful reaper, a horse-drawn machine to harvest wheat. He was born at the family farm called Walnut Grove in Rockbridge County, Virginia, on February 15, 1809.

  12. Cyrus McCormick Museum (Lexington) - All You Need to Know ...

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    It covers five acres of the original 532-acre farm and is free to the public. The farm, established in 1822 by McCormick's father, still features eight buildings--a grist mill, blacksmith shop, smokehouse, slave quarters, carriage house, manor house, schoolroom and housekeeper's quarters.