Inventors and manufacturers of the machines that replaced hand reaping and flail threshing, including the mechanical reaper and the threshing machine. These machines cut and gathered grain and separated it from the straw at a fraction of the labour, and they changed how much land one farm family could work. A person belongs here when their cited article names them as the inventor, maker or promoter of a reaping, harvesting or threshing machine.
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Harvesting and Threshing Machine Inventors
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Cyrus McCormick (Wikipedia)
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Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809, May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.
Andrew Meikle (Wikipedia)
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Andrew Meikle (5 May 1719-27 November 1811) was a Scottish mechanical engineer credited with inventing the threshing machine, a device used to remove the outer husks from grains of wheat.
Obed Hussey (Wikipedia)
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His most notable invention was a reaping machine, patented in 1833, that was a rival of a similar machine, patented in 1834, produced by Cyrus McCormick.
Jerome Case (Wikipedia)
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Jerome Increase Case (December 11, 1819, December 22, 1891) was an early American manufacturer of threshing machines.
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