Cyrus McCormick, an Uncommon card

Cyrus Hall McCormick was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.
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Rarity: Uncommon
Domain: Science
ATK: 70
DEF: 61
Power: 131
Wikipedia reads a year: 41,000

Power 131 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.

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Cyrus McCormick quiz: 3 questions

Three questions on the Cyrus McCormick card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.

Find the missing word
McCormick always claimed credit as the single inventor of the ______ reaper.
Answer
mechanical. McCormick always claimed credit as the single inventor of the mechanical reaper. From the Cyrus McCormick article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Cyrus Hall McCormick was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of the International Harvester Company in ____.
Answer
1900s. Cyrus Hall McCormick was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902. From the Cyrus McCormick article on Wikipedia.

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The facts on the card

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Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he and many members of the McCormick family became prominent residents of Chicago.
McCormick always claimed credit as the single inventor of the mechanical reaper.
He was, however, one of several designing engineers who produced working models in the 1830s.

Why it is Uncommon

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cyrus McCormick article was read about 41,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.

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Text : Wikipedia, Cyrus McCormick (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cyrus_McCormick_engraving.jpg : George Smillie [1] derivative work: - raeky ( talk | edits, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.