World's+Greatest+Inventer

Canton Middle School 3/12/10 Dear Award Committee, . Cyrus McCormick was born February 15, 1809 in Rockbridge county Virginia. He only had a small amount of education but he made up for it by showing his talent of machinery just like his father, Robert McCormick. Robert McCormick tried many times to invent a commercially successful reaper and his attempts ended with a failure. Cyrus took over his father’s project and with a new prospective he built a machine from his father's designs. Cyrus McCormick was in charge of relieving the farm workers from hours of very hard work by introducing the farmers to his new mechanical reaper in July, 1831. The reaper was a horse drawn farm plow invented for the purpose to cut small grain crops and cutting crops and wheat more quickly. By 1847, McCormick started the mass manufacture of his reaper in a Chicago factory. McCormick helped the world of agriculture and farming by making it all easier with his invention of the reaper. McCormick was the worlds best inventor because he invented the 1st mechanical reaper which helped farming and agricultural processes go faster and more work gets done which means more money gets made so it helps everyone world wide. This helps every business and community with agricultural and food production. This is why I think that Cyrus McCormick is the greatest inventor and deserves the greatest and most successful award. He made the world, farming, and agriculture a lot easier. Thanks for your time and consideration Sincerely, Colton Hipps, Hunter Wike, Dusty Jones