Obed Hussey (1792–1860) was an American inventor. His most notable invention was a reaping machine, patented in 1833, that was a rival of a similar machine, patented in 1834, produced by Cyrus McCormick.
Obed Hussey (1792–1860) was an American inventor. His notable invention, a reaping machine patented in 1833, faced competition from a comparable model developed by Cyrus McCormick in the same year.