Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York : Henry Holt and company · leaf 354
he gave mc. Had lie condemned the prin-ciple of mv reaper, it might never have gone a step further. / J^ McCormick always kept his lips firmly closed as to thesources of his successive models. Whatever they were, hegave them diligent study, careful experiment, and suchchanges in detail as work in… … McCormick Reaper, 1834 [From Who Invented the Reaper? by R. B.Swift, Chicago, McCormickHarvesting Machine Co., 1897.] reaper in its later developments. Almost incredibly loosewas the management of the Patent Ofifice in the early dec-ades of the nineteenth century. At that time, said Ed-mund Burke,…
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