[Gutenberg 19547] • Obed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap

Excerpt from Obed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap: Being a True Record of His Life and Struggles to Introduce His Greatest Invention, the Reaper, and Its Success

Yet it was just this which has operated to deprive Obed Hussey of his well deserved fame as inventor of the reaper. Moreover, a great industry, fostered by his opponents in the patent controversy, has grown up, the basis and life of which is Obed Hussey's invention of the reaper. It would seem that the vast fortunes made from this industry should be ample reward for those who are receiving the benefits of a man's life work Without whose genius it would never have been.