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Factory service manual for McCormick-Deering No. 2 Easy-Fold Harrow TM 5-1080 (1942). OCR text from a public-domain Internet Archive scan ...
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... McCormick, reference is here made to a book entitled "Memorial of Robert McCormick," the father of Cyrus H. McCormick, Leander J. McCormick and William S. McCormick, published by the said Leander J. McCormick in ...
... Mary McCormick, mother of C. H. McCormick, agreed in general with the testimony of her sons,--did not doubt but it was correct, "it appears familiar to me," but testified to nothing in particular ...
... Page's report, conclusive, "that said patent ought not to be extended." We have also seen it stated that Hussey appeared before the Board of Extensions "to contest the extension of McCormick's patent ...
... McCormick (and now on file in the Patent Office) was deemed inadmissible and informal by the Board, and it refused to go on with the examination either as to priority or validity of invention ...
... The compact form of Hussey's implement was in its favor, though from the notoriety of McCormick's at Mr. Mechi's farm, the general preference was at first on his side. McCormick's ...
... A farmer ordered a machine to be delivered in 1841, but McCormick "did not then feel that it was safe to warrant its performance." These facts are found in the records of the United ...
... Hussey's reaper work at cutting grass and grain, think it preferable to McCormick's or any other machine that we have seen. It cut wheat that could not be cut with McCormick's ...
... C. H. McCormick, 'inventor of the reaper,' I write you to say that it would manifestly be unjust to credit the invention of the reaper to any one man. Mr. McCormick does deserve great ...
... A Hussey-McCormick Contest] In 1843 we find that Hussey's machine was in a field-contest with one brought in by Cyrus H. McCormick of Rockbridge County, Va. We say brought in, because ...
... Whose Machine Still Lives?] "Whatever might have been embodied in the first McCormick machine or in his experiments or machines for the first fifteen years of his efforts, the _reaper of the present day ...
Could it be contended that because _rockers_ are attached to a chair it is no longer a chair, or useful as a seat? Even "Mary McCormick, the mother of Cyrus," and "Eliza H. Steele ...
... McCormick and _Father_, a reaper at $110, which was _drawn_ by two horses, and it was raked off to the right hand side by a _man on foot_. The father of C. H. McCormick ...
"Another breadth or two having been cut, Hussey's machine followed, and cut some breadths--somewhat wider than McCormick's, and closer to the ground. "Mackenzie, when we pointed out the shorter stubble of ...
"I had no intention, neither had I any desire, to place any obstacle in the way of the extension of McCormick's patent, but the course he has taken, before your Board and before ...
"Sir--Having been in communication with you relative to the trial of your Reaper against McCormick's, and feeling deeply interested in the introduction of the new implement into this district, particularly one of ...
... to the sickle, which required the team to walk a bit too fast for teams of habitual, or slow motion. (Signed) "CLARK LANE." [Sidenote: McCormick Late in the Field] [Sidenote: McCormick's Application Rejected]
... The First Machine] The following is also copied from "Memorial of Robert McCormick," published by Leander J. McCormick in 1885:
... Hussey Did Not Need the Improvements of Others] The statement that McCormick's success was founded upon the inventions of others and to no extent upon his own, as quoted from "Memorial of Robert ...
... McCormick, who, at that time, was a partner of Cyrus McCormick as a manufacturer and seller of the McCormick reaper: [Sidenote: A Worthless Machine] "As a farmer I used the reaper without a seat ...
... A "Considerable Doubt"] "'A trial has taken place before the Cleveland Agricultural Society of the respective merits of McCormick's and Hussey's American Reaping Machines, and the report of the jury of practical ...
... July last, between my reaping machine and Mr. McCormick's, at which trial you were one of a committee which gave the preference to Mr. McCormick's machine. "You will also recollect that the ...
Following upon these various successes, an advertisement from the proprietors of McCormick's Machine appeared in the public papers, as follows:
... McCormick--for I am familiar with both; owing to the quality of the work, costs of material and arrangement of the mechanism, _two_ of McCormick's can be made by him for little or ...
... After this, I heard of McCormick making experiments at one of his Western factories--I think it was at Chicago; and finally he addressed me _a letter, stating he had changed the construction of ...
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