The Foreign Business of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
Author : Howard Bernard Schonberger
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Page : 514 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Howard Bernard Schonberger
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Page : 514 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Cyrus MC Cormick
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
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Cyrus McCormick's invention of the mechanical reaper revolutionized agriculture in the 19th century. In this book, McCormick recounts his experiences developing and promoting the reaper, as well as the challenges he faced from competitors and skeptics. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of farming and technology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Cyrus McCormick
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Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Harvesting machinery
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Author : Cyrus MACCORMICK
Publisher : Boston : Houghton, Mifflin
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Harvesting machinery
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Author : Cyrus Hall McCormick
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : United States. Bureau of Corporations
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 1913
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Author : Gordon M. Winder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1317045165
The American Reaper adopts a network approach to account for the international diffusion of harvesting technology from North America, from the invention of the reaper through to the formation of a dominant transnational corporation, International Harvester. Much previous historical research into industrial networks focuses on industrial districts within metropolitan centres, but by focusing on harvesting - a typically rural technology - this book is able to analyse the spread of technological knowledge through a series of local networks and across national boundaries. In doing so it argues that the industry developed through a relatively stable stage from the 1850s into the 1890s, during which time many firms shared knowledge within and outside the US through patent licensing, to spread the diffusion of the American style of machines to establishments located around the industrial world. This positive cooperation was further enhanced through sales networks that appear to be early expressions of managerial firms. The book also reinterprets the rise of giant corporations, especially International Harvester Corporation (IHC), arguing that mass production was achieved in Chicago in the 1880s, where unprecedented urban growth made possible a break with the constraints felt elsewhere in the dispersed production system. It unleashed an unchecked competitive market economy with destructive tendencies throughout the transnational 'American reaper' networks; a previously stable and expanding production system. This is significant because the rise of corporate capital in this industry is usually explained as an outworking of national natural advantage, as an ingenious harnessing of science and technology to solve production problems, and as a rational solution to the problems associated with the worst forms of unregulated competition that emerged as independent firms developed from small-scale, artisanal production to large-scale manufacturers, on their own and within the separate and isolated US economy. The first study dedicated to the development and diffusion of American harvesting machine technology, this book will appeal to scholars from a diverse range of fields, including economic history, business history, the history of knowledge transfer, historical geography and economic geography.
Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476677093
Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the humans, using sickle and scythe. Change came in the mid-19th century when Cyrus Hall McCormick built the mechanical harvester. Though the McCormicks used their wealth to establish art collections and universities, battle disease, and develop birth control, members of the family faced constant scrutiny and scandal. This book recounts their story as well as the history of the International Harvester Company (IHC)--a merger of the McCormick and Deering companies and the world's leader in agricultural machinery in the 1900s.
Author : McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,87 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Harvesting machinery
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Author : Barbara Marsh
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
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