. Birds and nature . bstantially in the position now placed inharvesting machines, and his cutting de-vices were operated by it. His machinewas. not only adapted to cut the grain,but deliver it at one side in order to makea clear path of travel in cutting the nextround. His machine did not come into use, butwas patented and thus made practical in detail or not mat-ters little, for he left to the world as alegacy the foundation principles of thereaping machine. Those who followedenriched the art only by additions andmodifications. A second patent was granted to himcovering improv
. Birds and nature . bstantially in the position now placed inharvesting machines, and his cutting de-vices were operated by it. His machinewas. not only adapted to cut the grain,but deliver it at one side in order to makea clear path of travel in cutting the nextround. His machine did not come into use, butwas patented and thus made practical in detail or not mat-ters little, for he left to the world as alegacy the foundation principles of thereaping machine. Those who followedenriched the art only by additions andmodifications. A second patent was granted to himcovering improvements. His machinemight leave the grain in almost a con-tinuous swath or in gavels, which de-pended only upon the number of rakingdevices applied to his rotary cutting ap-paratus. In the patent granted to Salmon, whofollowed him in 1808, is found a grainreceiving platform, differing in no respectfrom that of the early practical reaper, acutting apparatus placed at its forwardedge, a divider to separate the grain be-. ing cut from that left standing, and anorbitally moving rake adapted to removethe grain in gavels to the ground. While it is of actual achievements thatwe shall mainly write, it is well to saythat the actual achievement of the reap-ing machine was accomplished largelyfrom knowledge given us by those earlyinventors, and it is proper that we pointout precisely what they have taught us,for more than thirty machines have beenpatented in England and America beforethe machine of Bell, the Scotch preacher,of 1828, was placed upon the market inEngland. Kerr, Smith and others added theirmite of knowledge, and in 1822 HenryOgle, an English schoolmaster, inventeda reaping machine that was made by aMr. Brown, and which cut one acre perhour. The trial was so successful that OGLE,
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