Who invented the combine harvester?
When I first searched for, “Who invented the combine harvester?” I came up with the answer, Hiram Moore in 1838. I continued to look into it a little more and realized that it maybe wasn’t as simple as that. Names such as John Ridley, John Wrathall Bull, Victor McKay, James Morrow, and others came up in searches that I did, all of them inventing, modifying, or perfecting some type of combined harvesting machine at various times in history. One website was even created to make it clear that Victor McKay did not invent it and that James Morrow did invent it. Regardless of who invented it, the first machines made it possible for fewer men to harvest a crop, but many more horses were needed to pull the machines, some needing up to 40 horses to be pulled. So let’s see… with 210 combines… 40 horses each… we’re going to need 8400 horses for August 7th… help! From all the reading I’ve done I can’t really say I’ve figured out who was the first one to invent it, or what that combine harvester lo
