CyrusMcCormick improved it even more with the mechanical harvester.
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In 1831, an Irish American farmer and inventor named CyrusMcCormick invented the mechanical reaper, which was drawn by a horse and made it possible to harvest as much grain in a day as a dozen men with scythes.
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In 1834, Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.