Download or read book Cyrus McCormick and the Mechanical Reaper written by Lisa J. Aldrich and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles Cyrus Hall McCormick, whose hatred of farm work led him to invent a machine which made it much quicker and easier to harvest wheat, and which turned him into a multi-millionaire businessman.