Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 - May 13, 1884 ) was an American inventor , founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company , which later became part of the International Harvester in 1902 [2] .
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| Birth name | Cyrus Hall McCormick |
| Date of Birth | February 15, 1809 |
| Place of Birth | Rockbridge County, Virginia |
| Date of death | May 12, 1884 (75 years) |
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| Citizenship | USA |
| Occupation | entrepreneurship, inventions. |
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| Children | , and |
| Awards and prizes | National Hall of Fame of US inventors |
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Inventions and Achievements
For 28 years, McCormick's father had been working on a draft of a horse- thresher , which he was unable to complete. In 1830, he handed over the drawings to his son Cyrus, 21 years old [3] . McCormick brought the father’s project to completion in a year and a half, demonstrated the thresher in action in 1831 , and in 1834 patented the invention .
In 1847, Cyrus McCormick moved to Chicago and, with his two brothers, founded a small company selling agricultural equipment. Thresher McCormick sold very well due to the ingenuity of the brothers in the field of marketing techniques [4] . The McCormick brothers founded a network of small representative offices of the company with specially trained vendors who demonstrated threshing work in the field.
As a result of his activities, Cyrus McCormick entered the List of the richest people in the USA in 1918 with a fortune of $ 60 million (657 million including inflation for 2002).
Awards
- Thresher McCormick received numerous awards and prizes .
- McCormick was elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences .
- Thresher won the Gold Medal at the World Exhibition in London .
- McCormick has been featured in the Hall of Fame for the achievements of American entrepreneurship since 1975 .
- The name McCormick named the city and county in South Carolina .
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 117516597 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Cyrus Hall McCormick . Wisconsin Historical Society. The appeal date is August 26, 2007. Archived April 20, 2012.
- ↑ Daniel, Gross. Greatest Business Stories of All Time. - First. - New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997. - P. 25. - ISBN 0-471-19653-3 .
- ↑ ibid.
Links
- McCormick Reaper
- Iles, George (1912), Leading American Inventors , New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 276-314 , < https://archive.org/details/leadingamericani00ilesrich >