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When Obed Hussey was born on 25 July , in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Obed Hussey Sr., was 31 and his.
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Obed Hussey
American inventor
Obed Hussey () was an American inventor. His most notable invention was a reaping machine, patented in , that was a rival of a similar machine, patented in , produced byCyrus McCormick.
Hussey also invented a steam plow, a machine for grinding out hooks and eyes, a mill for grinding corn and cobs, a husking machine, a machine for crushing sugar cane, a machine for making artificial ice, a candle-making machine, and other devices.[1][2] However, he devoted the prime of his life to perfecting his reaping machine.[3]
Although the Hussey reaper was ultimately surpassed in the marketplace by the reaping machines of Cyrus McCormick, Hussey was the first person to make, patent, and sell such a machine in the United States.[4] His machine was first in that it was first to be patented and had been worked in at least eight states before McCormick's machine had left the valley of Virginia.[5] Moreo