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Two cousins have devoted 10 years to developing and marketing a revolutionary new harvester. Kansas farmer and mechanical wizard Mark Underwood gutted a standard combine, rebuilding it to fit his innovative design. His Bi-roter combine, "Whitey," produces cleaner grain and is more efficient than the standard. Ralph Lagergren, a persuasive salesman, raised capital and sought publicity and corporate interest. Canine deftly interweaves the story of the two men's struggles with a history of the mechanization of agriculture. This lively account of men working under pressure, improvising repairs and demonstrating the new machine, is also a story of courage that illustrates the barriers facing an independent inventor. Mark and Ralph are still seeking a corporate sponsor, still determined to market the combine. Illustrations.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Canine tells the story of farmer Mark Underwood, who invents a harvesting machine called the Bi-Rotor combine, and his salesman cousin, Ralph Lagergren, who perseveres in getting publicity for the combine and finding a company willing to manufacture it. This extraordinary machine outperforms other combines in wet and dry conditions and provides new perspectives on designing and building harvest machinery. The dreams that motivate the cousins to devote their lives to their combine's success and the personal disappointments that impede them are powerfully described in Canine's narrative. Neglected families, the need for continued funding, recruiting and retaining workers to build the prototype, engineering and design glitches, and broken promises by duplicitous corporations take their toll on the inventor and his team. An Iowan publishing his first book, Canine contrasts the mechanical genius of Underwood with the lives of earlier farmer-inventors, like Cyrus McCormick, who transformed American agriculture over the past 150 years. A well-written history about the inventions that modernized farming and the human factors that both motivate and hinder an inventor's creativity; for public and academic collections.?Irwin Weintraub, Rutgers Univ. Libs., Piscataway, N.J.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Two cousins have devoted 10 years to developing and marketing a revolutionary new harvester. Kansas farmer and mechanical wizard Mark Underwood gutted a standard combine, rebuilding it to fit his innovative design. His Bi-roter combine, "Whitey," produces cleaner grain and is more efficient than the standard. Ralph Lagergren, a persuasive salesman, raised capital and sought publicity and corporate interest. Canine deftly interweaves the story of the two men's struggles with a history of the mechanization of agriculture. This lively account of men working under pressure, improvising repairs and demonstrating the new machine, is also a story of courage that illustrates the barriers facing an independent inventor. Mark and Ralph are still seeking a corporate sponsor, still determined to market the combine. Illustrations.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Canine tells the story of farmer Mark Underwood, who invents a harvesting machine called the Bi-Rotor combine, and his salesman cousin, Ralph Lagergren, who perseveres in getting publicity for the combine and finding a company willing to manufacture it. This extraordinary machine outperforms other combines in wet and dry conditions and provides new perspectives on designing and building harvest machinery. The dreams that motivate the cousins to devote their lives to their combine's success and the personal disappointments that impede them are powerfully described in Canine's narrative. Neglected families, the need for continued funding, recruiting and retaining workers to build the prototype, engineering and design glitches, and broken promises by duplicitous corporations take their toll on the inventor and his team. An Iowan publishing his first book, Canine contrasts the mechanical genius of Underwood with the lives of earlier farmer-inventors, like Cyrus McCormick, who transformed American agriculture over the past 150 years. A well-written history about the inventions that modernized farming and the human factors that both motivate and hinder an inventor's creativity; for public and academic collections.?Irwin Weintraub, Rutgers Univ. Libs., Piscataway, N.J.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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