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endless apron traveling intermittingly, and delivering its gavel at the side. 1833. Hussey, of Maryland, made the first valuable harvester. It was patented as a mower. It had open fingers, the knife consisting of triangular sections reciprocating in the space, cutting shearwise against the guards. It was front draft, side cut, and had a platform. The open-top slotted finger was patented by Hussey in 1847. The cutter-bar was on a hinged frame. The raker rode on the machine 1834. McCormick, of Virginia, patented his reaper, which, with various improvements, in 1845 and 1847 received a Council medal at the London World's Fair in 1851. This machine had a sickle-edged sectional knife, reciprocated by crank and pitman by gear connection to the drive-wheel, on which the frame rested. Spear-shaped fingers gathered the grain, which was laid over to the cutter by a revolving-reel. A divider was used on each end of the platform. The driver and raker had seats on the machine. The