![]() Of the regiments of young men who have left the harvest fields to do battle for the "The reaper is as important to the North as slavery to the South. Flower, which included the following quotation attributed to an 1861 patent case, in which Stanton argued: Ott quotes a 1905 biography ofĮdwin Stanton, written by Frank A. Apparently, Edwin Stanton was a patent attorney before he became Secretary of War for President Lincoln, and he was arguing in court in 1861 that McCormick's reaper deserved an extension of his patent term. Ott argues persuasively that this quotation is incorrect. McCormick’s invention I feel the North could not win and the Union would have The supply of bread for the nation and the nation’s armies. Released them to do battle for the Union at the front and at the same time kept up By taking the place of regiments of young men in western harvest fields, it "Secretary of War Stanton said: ‘The reaper is to the North what slavery is to the However, Daniel Peter Ott in a 2014 PhD dissertation on " Producing a Past: Cyrus McCormick's Reaper from Heritage to History." Ott traces the claim that the reaper helped to win the Civil War back to some promotional materials for the centennial celebration of the reaper in 1931 produced by International Harvester which included this statement: Rhodes quotes the historian William Hutchinson who wrote: "Of all the inventions during the first half of the nineteenth century which revolutionized agriculture, the reaper was probably the most important," because it removed the bottleneck of needing to hire lots of extra workers at harvest time, and thus allowed a farmer "to reap as much as he could sow."īut somewhere along the way, I had imbibed a larger myth, that the labor saving properties of the reaper helped the North to with the Civil War by allowing young men who would otherwise have been needed for the harvest to become soldiers. The reaper was a horse-drawn contraption for harvesting wheat and other grains. The reaper was important, but it didn't win the Civil War Here, I'll lay out some of the lessons which caught my eye, which in places will sound similar to modern issues concerning innovation and intellectual property. ![]() Karl Rhodes tells the story of the arguments over who invented the reaper and the wars over patent rights in " Reaping the Benefits of the Reaper," which appears in the Econ Focus magazine published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (Third/Fourth Quarter 2016, pp. The McCormick Company continues to produce farming equipment today.The McCormick reaper is one of the primary labor-saving inventions of the early 19th century, and at a time when many people are expressing concerns about how modern machines are going to make large numbers of workers obsolete, it's a story with some lessons worth remembering. The McCormick reaper was part of a revolution in farming that took place during the 19th century that mechanized the profession of farming. From that point on the McCormick reaper dominated the market and help revolutionize the harvest of crops. In 1850 McCormick purchased the rights to a key aspect of the Hussey reaper and cutter bar that cut the stalks more effectively. The McCormick Reaper and the Hussey Reaper competed over the next 20 years for customers. It would cut the standing grain and swept it into a platform and then moved into piles by the men working the reaper. Cyrus received a patent on his design in 1834 as a horse drawn farm implement to cut small grain crops. Robert McCormick who lived in Walnut Grove Virginia began the development of the reaper, but when he became frustrated with its performance he let his son Cyrus finish the design. In the United States two reapers were developed the Hussey reaper by Oded Hussey and the McCormick Reaper by Robert and then Cyrus McCormick. The first efforts were made in Europe were two mechanical devices were developed. In the early 19th century efforts were made to develop a mean of mechanizing the harvesting of crops. It is believed that the Romans had developed a simple mechanical reaper for cutting off the useful part of a crop but that invention was lost. ![]() ![]() It means to cut and gather the crops, such as corn ears or grain stalks. The reaping of crops was done to harvest them.
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