Actually, it goes back farther than that, to the 1830s and Cyrus McCormick’s reaper, but the merging of McCormick Harvesting ...
In the 1830s, Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the world's first mechanical reaper, a machine with the potential to improve farmers' productivity tenfold. Astonishingly, farmers remained uninterested—or ...
The committee included Cyrus H. McCormick Jr., eldest son of the inventor of the mechanical reaper and president of International Harvester. In Petrograd, McCormick met the 26-year-old composer.