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Definition of Cyrus McCormick
1. Noun. United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884).
Generic synonyms: Artificer, Discoverer, Inventor, Manufacturer, Producer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyrus McCormick
Literary usage of Cyrus McCormick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyrus Hall McCormick and the Reaper by Reuben Gold Thwaites, State Historical Society of Wisconsin (1909)
"... but he nevertheless declared: "Cyrus McCormick is an inventor, whose fame,
while he is yet living, has spread throughout the world. ..."
2. Miscellanies by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1912)
"... Seminary in Chicago, the eightieth anniversary of its foundation, and the
hundredth of the birth of Cyrus McCormick, its greatest benefactor. ..."
3. A Beginner's History by William Harrison Mace (1921)
"All his life Cyrus McCormick had to meet ridicule or bitter compe- tition.
But he came of He had the determination which battles its way to success. ..."
4. Famous Leaders of Industry: The Life Stories of Boys who Have Succeeded by Edwin Wildman, Trentwell Mason White, Harry Irving Shumway (1920)
"Necessity, however, is the mother of invention, and, for the reason that the boy
Cyrus McCormick found it terrible drudgery, the hand sickle was superseded ..."
5. The Virginia Handbook by Blair Howard, Mary K. Burnham, Bill Burnham (2005)
"To the north of the city, Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanized reaper that
revolutionized American agricultural production. General George C. Marshall ..."
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