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Cyrus McCormick was born Feburary 15 1809 in Rockbridge County, Virginia
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At the age of 15 Cyrus invented a lightweight cradle for carting harvested grain.
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Cyrus made his reaper public. Him and his father Robert McCormick had created a reaper and Cyrus made improvements to it.
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A patent issued to Cyrus McCormick as the inventor of the mechanical reaper
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A factory is constructed in Chicago to produce 500 reapers for the 1848 harvest.
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McCormick displayed his reaper at the first world's fair in London, England.
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The Great Chicago Fire destroyed the entire factory and the McCormicks' homes, but the business quickly rcovered
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The McCormicks changed the name of their company from McCormick Brothers to the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
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The “McCormick Harvesting Machine Co” sold 54,841 machines
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Cyrus McCormick dies at the age of 75. Causes are unknown.
