Whiteley Harvester Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1877
label: patent date
content: 1877-11-13
name: label: inventor
content: Whiteley, William N.
notes: label: Description
content: This model accompanied the patent application for William N. Whiteley’s improvement in harvesters that received patent number 197,192 on November 13, 1877. The combined reaper and mower had a single large wheel with a driver’s seat to steer the horses and manipulate the mower, reaper, or rake attachments This harvester model was manufactured under the brand name “Champion.” The Champion was sold by a variety of company’s across the country from its home in Springfield, Ohio which is still known as the “Champion City.”
label: Description
content: A reaper is a machine for harvesting grain crops, especially wheat. Drawn by horses (or a tractor), a reaper uses a large blade to cut wheat stalks. Early reapers required farmers to rake wheat off the machine by hand. On self-raking models, automatic rakes pushed the wheat across a platform and deposited it on the ground in bunches. Workers followed the reaper, gathering and tying bundles of wheat, called “sheaves.” They stacked the sheaves into piles, called “stooks,” for protection from wind and rain. Later, workers threshed and winnowed the wheat to remove edible grains from the inedible chaff.
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Ohio, Springfield
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Agriculture
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.197192
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: 197192
label: patent number
content: 197,192
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model, harvester
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)