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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 708,024 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Cyrus McCormick is the 259th most popular inventor (down from 252nd in 2019), the 4,072nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,106th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Cyrus McCormick ranks 259 out of 354. Before him are Eunice Newton Foote, Colin Archer, Pavel Yablochkov, Ernst Alexanderson, Tivadar Puskás, and Samuel Morland. After him are Vittorio Jano, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, James Nasmyth, Michael S. Hart, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, and Walter Clopton Wingfield.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Cyrus McCormick ranks 44. Before him are Matsumura Sōkon, Karl Koch, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, James Glaisher, Kit Carson, and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn. After him are Rutherford Alcock, Louis Charles Delescluze, Manuel Montt, James David Forbes, Johann Heinrich Blasius, and Benjamin Peirce. Among people deceased in 1884, Cyrus McCormick ranks 38. Before him are Ludwig Richter, George Bentham, Johann Gottfried Piefke, Jan Arnošt Smoler, Kiến Phúc, and Gotthilf Hagen. After him are Juan Bautista Alberdi, Antonio García Gutiérrez, Giuseppe De Nittis, Leopold Fitzinger, Auguste Franchomme, and Augustin-Alexandre Dumont.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cyrus McCormick ranks 4,072 out of 18,182. Before him are Lisa Niemi (1956), Holly Marie Combs (1973), Freddie Hubbard (1938), Paul Rand (1914), Frank Welker (1946), and Margaret Hamilton (1902). After him are Horace Parnell Tuttle (1837), Winthrop Rockefeller (1912), Kristen Bell (1980), La Monte Young (1935), Paul Wesley (1982), and Jackie Earle Haley (1961).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Cyrus McCormick ranks 62. Before him are Theodore Maiman (1927), Glenn Curtiss (1878), Ray Dolby (1933), Frank Zamboni (1901), Walter Hunt (1796), and Eunice Newton Foote (1819). After him are Michael S. Hart (1947), Robert Metcalfe (1946), David Bushnell (1742), Lester Allan Pelton (1829), L. L. Langstroth (1810), and Edward Lawry Norton (1898).

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