Who Made The Mechanical Reaper?
Who Made The Mechanical Reaper? In 1831, twenty-two-year-old Cyrus McCormick took over his father’s project of designing a mechanical reaper. Why did Robert and Cyrus McCormick develop a mechanical reaper? Hoping to reduce the workload on his farm, Robert McCormick, Cyrus’s father, had tried to develop a mechanical harvester in the early nineteenth century. Unfortunately,