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(b) McCormick was ordered to take testimony showing the pri- 

 ority of his reaper over Hussey's. This testimony was not considered, 

 as it did not reach Washington in time. Hussey, however, attended 

 this testimony and filed a brief in which he admitted the priority of 

 McCormick's machine. 



(c) Hussey and McCormick applied to the Congress of the United 

 States for an extension of their patents of 1833 and 1834. Both were 

 refused. 



(d) McCormick applied to the Commissioner of Patents for an 

 extension of his patents of 1845 an ^ 1847 an d Hussey applied for an 

 extension of his patent of 1847. McCormick's extensions were refused, 

 because of political manipulations and large profits that he had made 

 upon his machine, but with an encomium upon his position as inventor 

 that was worth more than any patent extension. Hussey having made 

 no profit from manufacturing his machine, was allowed an extension 

 of his patent of '47, he making oath to the fact that his machine built 

 in accordance with his patent of 1833 was a failure. 



(e) Hussey admitted that the scalloped sickle was old, and the 

 double guard was old, and that his invention consisted only in the com- 

 bination of the two old elements the old scalloped sickle and the old 

 double guard. 



I submit that the showing made by these two inventors while en- 

 deavoring to extend their patents clearly proves McCormick the in- 

 ventor of the reaper. 



IV.-HUSSEY'S VIEW OF HIS AND MC CORMICK'S MACHINES. 



The Protest contains the following quotations from the brief filed 

 by Hussey before the Board of Extension: 



" I believe that I have established in this review of the evidence 

 taken in Augusta County, Va., and by the books referred to, the fol- 

 lowing points: 



" (i) That C. H. McCormick is not the inventor of the arrange- 

 ment by which the horses draw the machine. 



" (2) That he is not the inventor of the platform. 



" (3) That he is not the inventor of the movement of the cutter by 

 means of a crank. 



" (4) That he is not the inventor of the double knives, even if it 

 were satisfactorily proved that he used them prior to the date of my pat- 

 ent, which is questionable. 



