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In 1911, the Holt Manufacturing Company of California produced a self-propelled harvester.

In Australia in 1923, the patented Sunshine Auto Header was one of the first center-feeding self-propelled harvesters.

In 1923 in Kansas, the Curtis brothers and their Gleaner Manufacturing Company patented a self-propelled harvester which included several other modern improvements in grain handling.

Both the Gleaner and the Sunshine used Fordson engines.

In 1929 Alfredo Rotania of Argentina patented a self-propelled harvester.

In 1937, the Australian-born Thomas Carroll, working for Massey-Harris in Canada, perfected a self-propelled model and in 1940 a lighter-weight model began to be marketed widely by the company.

Lyle Yost invented an auger that would lift grain out of a combine in 1947, making unloading grain much easier.