. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . t work inAmerica, and was so struck with its merits as to advise theMessrs. Garrett to commence the construction of suchmachines for the use of English farmers. The result ofthis advice was the production of the machine taken toExeter, and called by the makers the Tolemache EeapingMachine. The next year (1851) brought forth the GreatExhibition, and this machine was taken there by themanufacturers, and placed among the various machines attheir stand. In the American department, there had also been placedtwo other reaping machines—one invented

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. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . t work inAmerica, and was so struck with its merits as to advise theMessrs. Garrett to commence the construction of suchmachines for the use of English farmers. The result ofthis advice was the production of the machine taken toExeter, and called by the makers the Tolemache EeapingMachine. The next year (1851) brought forth the GreatExhibition, and this machine was taken there by themanufacturers, and placed among the various machines attheir stand. In the American department, there had also been placedtwo other reaping machines—one invented and exhibited byMCormick, and the other by Obed Hussey. We will nowproceed to describe these machines, and the trials made ofthem separately. Eig. 27 represents the side elevation of MCormicksmachine ; fig. 26 the plan of the same, and fig. 28 enlargedparts to show the cutting action more clearly. mcopmicks eeaping machine. The best possible description of this machine is thespecification itself. REAPING MACHINE. 107 Pig. 26.— Fig. 27.—Elevation.

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