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.
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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.
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 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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Transcript. In 1831, 22-year-old Cyrus McCormick tried his hand at building a mechanical reaper—a farm machine that cuts grain—that his father, farmer-slash-blacksmith-slash-inventor Robert McCormick, had tried and failed to develop a few years earlier. The younger McCormick tried something new.
The Cyrus McCormick Farm and Workshop is on the family farm of inventor Cyrus Hall McCormick known as Walnut Grove. Cyrus Hall McCormick improved and patented the mechanical reaper , which eventually led to the creation of the combine harvester .
Features 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.