HIS LIFE AND WORK 



are their Arkwrights, their Watts, their Davys ? 

 Here he was answered by the McCormick 

 Reaper, the Colt revolver, the Hobbs lock, the 

 Morse telegraph, the Howe sewing-machine, 

 the Deere plow, and the Hoe press. And, as 

 if to make the triumph of American invention 

 complete, it was in this year that the 

 yacht America easily out-classed the famous 

 yachts of England in a great race at Cowes, 

 and that the American steamer Baltic, of 

 the Collins Line, broke all th? ocean records 

 and became the speediest vessel on the high seas. 

 This Exposition did much for McCormick. 

 It was the first appreciation of his work, in a 

 large way, that he had received. It was a wel- 

 come change after twenty strenuous years. It 

 gave him the distinction that a naturally strong 

 nature craved, and secured the friendship of 

 such eminent men as Junius Morgan, George 

 Peabody, J. J. Mechi, and Lord Granville. 

 From a business point of view, also, the Expo- 

 sition was of great service to McCormick. It 

 enabled him to draw up a new plan of cam- 

 paign for the foreign trade. 



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