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.
After Robert gave up, his son, 22-year-old Cyrus McCormick, reconfigured his father's experiments and had a working reaper ready in 1831. The machine was patented in 1834 and Cyrus made and sold copies from the Virginia plantation where he was born, but business was not good. By 1846, less than 100 had been sold. A meeting with Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas and a visit to the vast grain fields of the Midwest convinced McCormick to relocate his operation to Chicago in 1847. His first investor was William Ogden.