jan 1, 1831 - Cyrus McCormick - mechanical harvester

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Cyrus McCormick was very far ahead of his time with business practices that are the standard now for many things, such as payment plans, field trials, and product guarantees

This machine made the handheld sickle obsolete for harvesting wheat, because with this invention, you stood on the back of the reaper and had a horse drag the reaper around, which would then chop down the wheat at a far quicker rate

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