Perform gentle stretching to the forearm musculature. These stretches should be performed in a PAIN-FREE manner. You should feel a slight stretch or pull along the muscles, but elbow pain should not be present. Hold stretch for 10 seconds and repeat 10 times.
When Robert McCormick, the father of Cyrus, drew his crude reaper out to a field of wheat in the early harvest of 1831, to make a trial of the invention on which he had spent fifteen years, Cyrus, you may be sure, was more than an onlooker. He had doubtless had a considerable [149] part in the making of this machine.
1824 At the age of 15, he invented a lightweight cradle for carting harvested grain 1831 Cyrus improves the reaper designed by his father Robert McCormick 1834 Patent issued to Cyrus McCormick as the inventor of the mechanical reaper 1847 a factory is constructed in Chicago to produce 500 reapers for the 1848 harvest 1859 Brothers Leander and William each receive one-fourth of the Cyrus McCormick & Brothers Co.