Cyrus McCormick, at 22, took up his father's ambition of constructing a motorized reaper in 1831. A reaping machine, often known as a mechanical reaper, is a semi-automated mechanical harvesting system. Mechanical reapers and other reapers have long been a vital aspect of mechanized agriculture, considerably adding to agricultural production.
US Patent Number: X8277
Invention: Reaper
Inventor: C. H. Mocormick
Year: 1834
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