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Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work is by Herbert N. Casson. The introduction says that whoever wishes to understand the making of the United States must read the life of Cyrus Hall McCormick. The text says the city of New York in 1809 was not larger than the Des Moines of to-day, and not nearly so well built and prosperous.
The text says there was no street railway, nor cooking range, nor petroleum, nor savings bank, nor friction match, nor steel plow, neither in New York nor anywhere else. The text says the Emperor was delighted, forgot for the moment his impending troubles, and at once offered McCormick the Cross of the Legion of Honor. The text says that two years later, because of the clamor of McCormick's competitors, a grand Field Test was arranged by the German Government at Altenberg, and that thirty-eight contestants entered the lists.
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- Herbert Newton Casson
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