[DOC] [TLE] Cyrus McCormick - Wikipedia [PAR] Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809  May 13, 1884) was an American 
inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which 
became part of International Harvester Company in 1901. From the Blue Ridge 
Mountains of Virginia, he and many members of his ... As Cyrus' father saw the 
potential of the design for a mechanical reaper,... [DOC] [TLE] Reaper - Wikipedia [PAR] A reaper is a farming tool or person that reaps (cuts and gathers) crops at harvest
, when they are ripe. Contents. [hide]. 1 Hand reaping; 2 Mechanical reaping. 2.1 
Early history; 2.2 Mechanical reapers in the U.S.; 2.3 Reapers in the late ... 
Collecting spilt grain from the field after reaping is called gleaning, and is 
traditionally... [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about HISTORIC NAMES - StudyStack [PAR] AFTER HIS FATHER FAILED SEVERAL TIMES, THIS MAN SUCCEEDED IN 
DEVELOPING THE MECHANICAL GRAIN REAPER, CYRUS MCCORMICK. [DOC] [TLE] Cyrus McCormick - Ohio History Central [PAR] Cyrus McCormick, American inventor of the mechanical reaper. ... Hoping to 
reduce the workload on his farm, Robert McCormick, Cyrus's father, had tried to 
develop a ... In 1831, Cyrus succeeded in developing a horse-drawn reaper that 
... 1837, prevented farmers in the East from purchasing his machine for several 
years. [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "THE CENTURY OF THE REAPER" - Internet Archive [PAR] I believe, further, that the countless Harvester men who are following in his 
footsteps are ... THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INVENTION 17 III. ... His father, 
who had spent so many years trying in vain to build a reaper, may have hoped for 
..... But then, for the first time in all history, a mechanical reaper cut grain and at 
the same... [DOC] [TLE] Cyrus McCormick Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements ... [PAR] This biography of Cyrus McCormick provides detailed information about his ... 
Inventor of mechanical reaper ... Aquarius Aquarius Men ... work to build a reaper
, Cyrus took over the project and after making several changes to the ... his 
father's creative edge since childhood and spent most of the time in his father's 
workshop. [DOC] [TLE] Producing a Past: Cyrus Mccormick's Reaper from Heritage to History [PAR] their patriarch was a mechanical genius, who invented the reaper in 1831 at the 
ripe-age ... cut grain, but had failed. Puzzling over his father's grain contraption 
for many years, in ... written shortly after his death by his eldest son, Cyrus Hall 
McCormick II. ... man once he moved to Chicago, where the family and his 
Company... [DOC] [TLE] CYRUS MCCORMICK | American National Business Hall of Fame ... [PAR] His father, Robert McCormick, was a very successful farmer who owned and ... 
His grain became flour at his own grist-mill or whiskey at his own distillery. ... for 
the first time in history all of the mechanical principles of the modern reaper. ... 
The spectators had to agree that the machine did the work of several men but 
money... [DOC] [TLE] Chronicles of America:The Age of Big Business: Chapter 6: Making ... [PAR] In the Civil War agriculture, for the first time in history, ceased to be exclusively a 
manual art. ... Though McCormick had invented his reaper in 1831, and though 
many rival ... The agricultural papers and agricultural fairs had not succeeded in 
.... "I am proud," said the old man, "to have a son who can do what I failed to do.". [DOC] [TLE] Virtue, Liberty, and Independence: Cyrus and Nettie McCormick [PAR] Nov 22, 2011 ... On the following Sunday service, Cyrus McCormick stood up in church ... 
Although his father's attempts to create a reaper failed, his son Cyrus invented a 
mechanical reaper which succeeded in his endeavor. ... The McCormick Reaper 
had a paddle wheel would press the wheat against a cutting knife. [DOC] [TLE] The Mechanization of Reaping and Mowing in American Agriculture ... [PAR] Obed Hussey sold his first machine in 1833 and the first wave of popular ....

Question: After his father failed several times, this man succeeded in developing the mechanical grain reaper
Answer: Cyrus McCormick