The invention of the combine harvester helped many people out with there lives in the surrounding areas. By inventing this machine, Hiram Moore industrialized the lives of many people so they could have more free time. For thousands of years reaping grain by hand was the only way to harvest the crop. Also, at first the only way to move the machine was ethier horse drawn or mule drawn.

Then, as the world changed and lives got easier to live the changed the invention became more modern. The power changed to engine and the material was made stronger.

We are lucky that we live in this modern world so we don't need to re-invent these things and they were just handed to us.

This is a small scale model of a modern combine harvester:

This very important invention changed a lot from that foggy image behind the horses. this is a good thing because it means the world is growing together to form a better and easier world. I hope our generations will produce more good ideas so they can be handed down new things and they can make it better.

The First Reaping Machine:

A horse-drawn combine "harvester-thresher" was introduced in Michigan in 1836. Also it was used in California but gave way to similar, more efficient machines.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE McCOMICK REAPER:

McCormick improved Hiram Moore's design. Later he sold his first two reapers in 1841. The machine quickly became popular, especially in the midwestern United States. Formerly, the amount of land that could be tilled was limited to the amount of manpower available to sow and harvest it. The McCormick reaper vastly cut the cost smaller for labor required to harvest grain crops and allowed much larger parts of land to be cultivated.