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MUSIC... [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 
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reaper, he applied ... McCormick claimed he had really invented his machine in 
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his son Cyrus invented a mechanical reaper which succeeded in his endeavor. ... 
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have .... we could never have become strong and rich and materially triumphant. 
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reaper. ... He tried it out privately in an adjacent wheatfiekl on the farm, with none 
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McCormick, the father of Cyrus, was in his most prosperous days the owner of 
four farms, ..... He had made one and tried it in the harvest of 1816, but it was a 
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Model T car so inexpensive that the average American ... inventions as the 
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Question: His father Robert attempted to build a mechanical reaper but failed; he succeeded & became quite wealthy
Answer: (Cyrus) McCormick