Editing Reaper (section)

===Reapers in the late 19th and 20th century===
After the first reapers were developed and patented, other slightly different reapers were distributed by several manufacturers throughout the world. The ''Champion (Combined) Reapers and Mowers''<!--several types were manufacured, plural therefore-->, produced by the Champion Interest]group (''Champion Machine Company'', later ''Warder, Bushnell & Glessner'', absorbed in [[International Harvester|IHC]] 1902) in [[Springfield, Ohio]] in the second half of the 19th century, were highly successful in the 1880s in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=3025&nm=William-N-Whiteley |title=William N. Whiteley |publisher=Ohio History Central |date=2007-01-09 |access-date=2012-08-04}}</ref> Springfield is still known as "The Champion City".

Generally, reapers developed into the 1872 invented [[reaper-binder]], which reaped the crop and bound it into sheaves.  By 1896, 400,000 reaper-binders were estimated to be harvesting grain.{{clarify|post-text=(number for the US only?)|date=December 2010}} This was in turn replaced by the [[swather]] and eventually the [[combine harvester]], which reaps and threshes in one operation.

In [[Central Europe]]an agriculture reapers were – together with reaper-binders – common machines until the mid-20th century.

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File:Champion Trade Card, 1875.jpg|Champion reaper, [[trade card]] from 1875
File:Adriance reaper, 19th century illustration.jpg| Adriance reaper, late 19th century
File:Boys can use farm machines-1900.jpg|1900 ad for McCormick farm machines—"Your boy can operate them"
File:Feature. Agricultural School BAnQ P48S1P06852.jpg|Horse-drawn reaper in [[Canada]] in 1941
File:Flügelmaschine.jpg| McCormick self-rake-reaper in use in Thuringia (Germany)  1950
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