biography
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| (1792–1860)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Exeter, Maine, USA. He spent his life in the invention, improvement, and manufacture of machines for use in agriculture and light engineering. He achieved his greatest success with a reaping machine patented in 1833, the year before a very similar machine was patented by Cyrus McCormick. Whereas McCormick was prepared to adapt other people's ideas, Hussey was not, and he eventually lost the competition with McCormick, selling out in 1858. |
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