Reapers: twelve engravings of harvesting machines on a printed page – Historic Reproduction
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Reapers: twelve engravings of harvesting machines on a printed page comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Reapers: twelve engravings of harvesting machines on a printed page
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Twelve small engravings of reaping machines share a single printed page, so the sheet works as a side-by-side survey of how harvesting equipment was drawn and described rather than a view of one machine. Mechanical reapers spread through American and British grain fields across the 19th century, after Cyrus McCormick and Obed Hussey developed competing designs in the 1830s. Printed illustrations like these helped farmers and manufacturers compare cutting bars, reel arrangements and drive wheels before the machines were widely available. Look closely at the differences in linkage and frame, which show how quickly the basic idea was refined.
| Original scan | 4,011 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 8e06566u Page from The Growth of industrial |
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