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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.

• International Harvester vehicles
• Agricultural machinery manufacturers of the United States
• Manufacturing companies based in Chicago
• Tractor manufacturers of the United States