. Some successful Americans . 84 SOME SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS for manufacture and transportation. Mr. McCormick con-tinued to improve his reaper and the demand for it con-stantly increased. In 1847 he sold seven hundred machines,in 1848 more than twice that number. Having associated his two brothers with him, Cyrusplanned to introduce the reaper into E^urope. In 1851he exhibited it at the Worlds Fair at London, where itwas the most important American exhibit, and was awardedthe grand prize known as the Council Medal. The London. Harvesting with Cradle in West Virginia Times said that the introduc
. Some successful Americans . 84 SOME SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS for manufacture and transportation. Mr. McCormick con-tinued to improve his reaper and the demand for it con-stantly increased. In 1847 he sold seven hundred machines,in 1848 more than twice that number. Having associated his two brothers with him, Cyrusplanned to introduce the reaper into E^urope. In 1851he exhibited it at the Worlds Fair at London, where itwas the most important American exhibit, and was awardedthe grand prize known as the Council Medal. The London. Harvesting with Cradle in West Virginia Times said that the introduction of the McCormick reaperwas worth to the farmers of Great Britain the whole cost ofthe fair. From that day to this the reaper has received thehighest award at every fair and exposition at which it has beenshown, and has steadily grown in favor all over the great Chicago fire in 1871 totally destroyed theMcCormick works, but they were rebuilt within a year,and now cover more than sixty acres of floor space. Thereapers go to all parts of the world, not only to the more CYRUS HALI, McCORMlCK 85 progressive countries, but to Egypt, India, and Persia as have been sent to Russia and Siberia. It would be a difficult task to determine the value of thereaper to the world. As long ago as 1859 Reverdy John-son, in an argument before the Commissioner of Patents,declared that the McCormick reaper was worth ^55,000,000a year to this country. If that was so, it is worth verymuch more now. About the same
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