INVENTOR

Cyrus McCormick

1809 - 1884

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Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902. Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he and many members of the McCormick family became prominent residents of Chicago. McCormick has been simplistically credited as the single inventor of the mechanical reaper. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cyrus McCormick has received more than 743,771 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Cyrus McCormick is the 273rd most popular inventor (down from 259th in 2019), the 4,816th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,061st in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Cyrus McCormick ranks 273 out of 426. Before him are Walter Clopton Wingfield, Colin Archer, François Isaac de Rivaz, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Glenn Curtiss, and Adolf Martens. After him are Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, Theodore Maiman, Samuel Morland, Michael S. Hart, John Barnard, and Whitcomb L. Judson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Cyrus McCormick ranks 47. Before him are Kit Carson, Constantin von Alvensleben, Matsumura Sōkon, Robert Cornelius, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, and William B. Travis. After him are Oswald Heer, Louis Charles Delescluze, Rutherford Alcock, Manuel Montt, Johann Heinrich Blasius, and Benjamin Peirce. Among people deceased in 1884, Cyrus McCormick ranks 45. Before him are Antonio García Gutiérrez, Arnold Henry Guyot, Johann Gottfried Piefke, Bernardo Guimarães, Jan Arnošt Smoler, and Aníbal Pinto. After him are Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, Giuseppe De Nittis, Miroslav Tyrš, Victor Massé, Keshub Chandra Sen, and Emanuel Geibel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cyrus McCormick ranks 4,816 out of 20,380. Before him are John Gray (1951), John Hay (1838), Kelly Hu (1968), Hal Clement (1922), Angelica Singleton Van Buren (1818), and Marilyn French (1929). After him are Bayard Rustin (1912), Tom Noonan (1951), Paul Scheuring (1968), Jeffrey Katzenberg (1950), Sam Jaffe (1891), and William Sanderson (1944).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Cyrus McCormick ranks 64. Before him are L. L. Langstroth (1810), Ray Dolby (1933), Frank Zamboni (1901), Laurens Hammond (1895), Robert Cornelius (1809), and Glenn Curtiss (1878). After him are Theodore Maiman (1927), Michael S. Hart (1947), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), Ralph Hartley (1888), George Devol (1912), and Jacob Perkins (1766).

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