Mechanization of Agriculture in the 19th century

By SGalant

  • 1834

    1834
    Cyrus McCormick patented the mechanical reaper

  • 1831

    1831
    The reaping of grain was vastly improved with the mechanical reaper. Before the mechanical reaper, reaping by hand limited farm size and food supply

  • 1840s

    1840s
    With this invention, there would be less farm hands needed, which made people flock to the city to work in factories in the expanding Industrial Revolution.

  • 1848-1857

    In 1848 his factory made 500 reapers; in 1851 it produced a thousand; by 1857 it was turning out 23,000.