![]() ![]() Cyrus McCormick and Obed Hussey both chose a toothed sickle. While ethics might have prevented them from being historians for hire, their own positions as middle-class workers pre-disposed them to be receptive to both the McCormick's financial influence and their historical messages. Robert McCormick had tried using revolving beaters to press the stalks against stationary knives. These early historians were anxious to demonstrate their concrete value in the corporate economy as "objective" guardians of the past. The dry treeless region that lies between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains is called. Early in 1886 labor unions were beginning a movement for an eight-hour day. The telegraph was invented by: Samuel Morse. The McCormick narrative of the past which was peddled in advertising and supported in scholarship justified the family's elite position in American society and its monopolistic control of the harvester industry in the face of political and popular antagonism.Īs a parallel story to the McCormick's hegemonic use of history, this dissertation also focuses on the professionalizing historical discipline during the Progressive Era. Three resourcesavailable to new England textile manufacturers were: Power from waterfalls, labor, and cotton from the south. 'Cyrus Hall McCormick and the Reaper.' State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1908. From 1884 to 1932, the McCormick Harvester family and their various affiliated businesses created a useable past about their departed patriarch, Cyrus McCormick, and his role in producing civilization through advertising and the emerging historical profession. His invention of the first successful mechanical reaper allowed grain production to increase 2,900, allowing the transition of farm labor to factory labor, and fueling the American industrial revolution. Hussey also invented a steam plow, a machine for grinding out hooks and eyes, a mill for grinding corn and cobs, a husking. His most notable invention was a reaping machine, patented in 1833, that was a rival of a similar machine, patented in 1834, produced by Cyrus McCormick. iron plow Robert Fulton Peter Cooper Eli Whitney Elias Howe James Oliver Cyrus McCormick Thomas Jefferson Jethro Wood. "Producing a Past" explores how the false "fact" of Cyrus McCormick's 1831 invention of the reaper came to be incorporated into the American historical cannon. Obed Hussey (17921860) was an American inventor. ![]()
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