Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 348
dvice he gave me. Had he condemned the prin-ciple of my reaper, it might never have gone a step further. 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 Office in the early dec-ades of the nineteenth century. At that time, said Ed-mund Burke,…
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