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The McCormick reaper was a famous agricultural implement that sharply improved farm productivity in the 19th century. Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809 – 1884) was the American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.

Invention of the reaper

Cyrus McCormick and his company insisted he be credited as the single inventor of the mechanical reaper. He was, however, one of several designing engineers who produced working models in the 1830s. His efforts built on more than two decades of work by his father Robert McCormick Jr., with the aid of Jo Anderson, an enslaved African-American man held by the family. He also successfully developed a modern company, with manufacturing, marketing, and a sales force to market his products.

See also

• Cyrus McCormick#Reaper

Notes

1. "Cyrus Hall McCormick". Wisconsin Historical Society. Archived from the original on September 5, 2007.
2. "Jo Anderson". Richmond Times-Dispatch. 5 February 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
3. McCormick, Cyrus Hall III (1931), The Century of the Reaper, Houghton Mifflin, LCCN 31009940, OCLC 559717.

Further reading

Further reading

• Benson, Howard William. "Organization and First Years of the International Harvester Company" (Thesis, The University of Chicago; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  1936. TM18363).

• Crismon, Frederick W. (2002), International Trucks (2nd ed.), Minneapolis: Victory WW2 Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9700567-2-6

• Marsh, Barbara. A corporate tragedy : the agony of International Harvester Company (Doubleday, 1985) online
• Lyons, Norbert. The McCormick reaper legend; the true story of a great invention (1955) [https://archive.org/details/mccormickreaperl00lyon online
• Ozanne, Robert W. A century of labor-Management relations at McCormick and International Harvester (1967) online
• Pickering, E. C. "The International Harvester Company in Russia: A Case Study of a Foreign corporation in Russia from the 1860s to the 1930s" (Thesis, Princeton University; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  1974. 7800256).

• Pripps, Robert N.; Morland, Andrew (photographer) (1993) Farmall Tractors: History of International McCormick-Deering Farmall Tractors (Farm Tractor Color History Series, Osceola, WI, USA: MBI), ISBN 978-0-87938-763-1

• Teanby, Mike. The roar of dust and diesel : a story of International Harvester, Doncaster (2004), the story of IH in Great Britain. online

• Winder, Gordon M. (2016) The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830-1910 (Routledge, ISBN 9781317045151)

Primary sources

• United States of America, petitioner, vs. International Harvester Company, et al., defendants : transcript of proceedings (1912) "international+Harvester"%29&sort=-date&and%5B%5D=subject%3A"Antitrust+law" online multivolume transcripts.

Film

• "THE ROMANCE OF THE REAPER" (1937 INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER PROMO FILM ), 25 minutes, black and white; filmed in Virginia. online

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