Elise Bergerson. Picking up from where yesterdayâs interview left off, Jay Wilds continued to speak with The Intercept about Serial. Wilds opened up about meeting with Sarah Koenig during her reporting for the podcast and why he decided against appearing on Serial to present his side of the story.
Cyrus McCormick wanted to design equipment that would simplify farmers' work. In 1831, he invented a horse-drawn reaper to harvest grain and started selling it to others in 1840. It allowed the farmer to do five times the amount of harvesting in a day than they could by hand using a scythe.
Samuel Pennock went on to streamline the scraper idea and invented and patented the first four wheeled road scraper which was dubbed 'the American Champion' in June of 1877. In 1928 the graders became truly motorised when the tractor was moved to the back and built in.