Show ONE BOYS BRILLIANT IDEA youngster told his father to tr scissors and so invented reaping machines in 1830 obed hussey of ohio was in 14 venting a reaping machine the first firs ever designed in this country ills his chief difficulty was tl tho he cuttina device which was three large sickles set in a frame and revolved so BO as tc cut into the grain it would not wort work satisfactorily A young son watching the expert ment asked his father why he did no not use a lot of big scissors with one handle fastened to one bar and the other handle to a sliding bar thui opening and closing them hussey instantly adopted the idea substituting tor for scissors tile the two saw toothed blades which are in common use today on harvesters the cutting action being quite similar to t 0 that oi of scissors from the boys suggestion he perfected in one week a machine on which he had in vain exercised all his ingenuity for the pro proceeding ceding two years the principle 0 of the cutting devico device la Is the principle of all of the great harvesting machines and its benefit to the farming industry of the entire world has been unsurpassed by any other invention for use on the farm saint nicholas |