McCormick Reaper
Subject:
Alisha Kanitkar Pd. 3 2/27/12 McCormick Reaper Cyrus Hall McCormick, who lived in the 1800's, was an American inventor accredited with the invention of the mechanical reaper. The reaper however was based on the work by others as well. McCormicks father purchased the original design from a blacksmith, and as McCormick saw that this design had extreme potential, he put his money towards the design and applied for a patent to claim the designs his own.
