Identifier: inventors00hube2 (find matches)
Title: Inventors
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925
Subjects: Inventors
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Cyrus Hall McCormick. VIII.CYRUS HALL McCORMICK. IN the course of an argument before the Com-missioner of Patents, in 1859, the \^e ReverdyJohnson declared that the McCormick reaperwas worth $55,000,000 a year to this country,an estimate that was not disputed. At aboutthe same time the late William H. Sewardsaid that owing to Mr. McCormicks inventionthe line of civilization moves westward thirtymiles each year. Already the London Times,after ridiculing the McCormick reaper exhibitedat the London Worlds Fair of 1851, as a crossbetween an Astley (circus) chariot, a wheel-barrow, and a flying-machine, confessed, whenthe reaper had been tested in the fields, that it was worth to the farmers of England the whole <j cost of this exhibition. Writing of this glorious o o success, Mr. Seward said: So the reaper of1831, as improved in 1845, achieved for its in-ventor a triumph which all then felt and ac-knowledged was not more a personal one thanit was a national one. It was justly so regard

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