Did anyone know that Cyrus Mccormick invention has created over 4.5 million loaves of bread into Chicago? Cyrus was born in February 15, 1809 and at a young age Cyrus started inventing things for agriculture. His father worked on it for 22 years and a 22 year old kid came and finished the reaper. Cyrus has started a very worldwide and international company that is still known today. Cyrus wanted to create a company that will be remembered, and Cyrus has a brilliant invention the reaper. His company merged with a rival and they made the International Harvester company. Cyrus Mccormick has changed the agriculture industry with his brilliant invention that have changes harvesting wheat. Cyrus started at a young age Cyrus was inventing useful
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Cyrus and this man had a contest to see how much wheat they could cut, and that day it rained and the other man’s reaper could not cut wheat in the rain and Cyrus cuts it all day. Cyrus and the man still went to court against the reaper and when he died he was still in court against it. However, the invention of the mechanical reaper by Cyrus McCormick, and its use in the Northern states, equaled the importance that the 1793 Eli Whitney Cotton Gin and the development of the Samuel Slater cotton mills had made to the Southern States.
In 1847 he built a factory in Chicago, Illinois. By the late 1800’s most of the farming in america was mostly done by hand and Mccormick invention saved a bunch of time harvesting wheat. So more farmers could, rent or farm more land to produce more food for the United States of America. The men it took to cut wheat went down substantial and the yield significantly increased because of the job the reaper did.
By 1850 he sold 5,000 reapers and in his first year he only sold 29 reapers. He did a bunch of advertising for his reaper. Cyrus’s reaper was said to be the best thing that happened to agriculture. To some knowledge that 75% of the work force …show more content…
He changed the world with his invention and from that reaper came for great and productive inventions to do things faster for the world to be able to produce more and get more money from the wheat. I think Cyrus has changed the world for the better because he went to a great deal of trouble to try and build this reaper. Cyrus risked his money his life to better agriculture and even though he went bankrupt he still was able to turn it around. Cyrus died at the age of 75 and he left his company to his son and the rest of his family and Cyrus left them a great and successful
Cyrus and this man had a contest to see how much wheat they could cut, and that day it rained and the other man’s reaper could not cut wheat in the rain and Cyrus cuts it all day. Cyrus and the man still went to court against the reaper and when he died he was still in court against it. However, the invention of the mechanical reaper by Cyrus McCormick, and its use in the Northern states, equaled the importance that the 1793 Eli Whitney Cotton Gin and the development of the Samuel Slater cotton mills had made to the Southern States.
In 1847 he built a factory in Chicago, Illinois. By the late 1800’s most of the farming in america was mostly done by hand and Mccormick invention saved a bunch of time harvesting wheat. So more farmers could, rent or farm more land to produce more food for the United States of America. The men it took to cut wheat went down substantial and the yield significantly increased because of the job the reaper did.
By 1850 he sold 5,000 reapers and in his first year he only sold 29 reapers. He did a bunch of advertising for his reaper. Cyrus’s reaper was said to be the best thing that happened to agriculture. To some knowledge that 75% of the work force …show more content…
He changed the world with his invention and from that reaper came for great and productive inventions to do things faster for the world to be able to produce more and get more money from the wheat. I think Cyrus has changed the world for the better because he went to a great deal of trouble to try and build this reaper. Cyrus risked his money his life to better agriculture and even though he went bankrupt he still was able to turn it around. Cyrus died at the age of 75 and he left his company to his son and the rest of his family and Cyrus left them a great and successful