Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: McCormick’s Mechanical Reaper

The mechanical harvester sounds like a robot grasping the heart of a person, but in reality they are the tools used to harvest the grain. Invented by Cyrus H. McCormick in 1831, it was the first of its kind, after centuries of development it changed the sickle and scythe people used. (Carson 208) Mechanical harvesters consist of partitions separating the stems of the grain, reels pulling the stems over the blades, and two blades cutting the grain. (Carrie 257) McCormick changed his face of agriculture forever through his invention and changed the face of the United States itself.

In 1834, Cyrus McCormick invented a mechanical lawn mower that changes the scale of agriculture in the United States. A farmer using a manual trowel and a trowel can harvest one hectare of wheat per day while a McCormick harvester and two men cultivate 12 acres a day I can. The success of McCormick fascinated other inventors and soon the mechanical planter replaced hand sowing and the need to separate wheat grains from mechanical threshing machine and straw. With all the advances in technology and the constant movement in the west, agriculture has become a major commercial activity in the 1950s. In the western part of Allegheny, large and specialized economic crop agriculture was mainstream. Soon, the number of produce increased more than the amount that can be consumed in the south. But what the agricultural community can do is not only to transport the products downstream but also to carry out a transportation revolution that allows them to send food to the east and the west.

The mechanical harvester invented by Cyrus McCormick allows fewer farmers to grow more grain in a shorter time. Not only did Cyrus McCormick completely redefine the difficult experience of agriculture, his mechanical harvester also helped greatly in the development of the American industry. In 1831, most Americans were directly involved in specific agriculture. Today, only a proportion of population than the whole country consumption consumes more food. Machines built by Cyrus McCormick and its successors are now known to harvest hundreds of acres a day. For our fathers, this is not true as their lives have great limitations on their lives. Over time the invention of the harvester turned many small family-run communities into big farms, and made it possible for many people to find work in the city.

Cyrus McCormick is considered "father of modern agriculture". In 1831 he invented the world's first mechanical harvester. It replaced mechanical power and helped to harvest the crop. His invention is regarded as the key to expansion to the west of the United States. Slave Joe Anderson also developed a mechanical harvester with McCormick.