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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. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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Dream Reaper follows Mark Underwood, farmer and inventor, and his salesman cousin as they strive to perfect and market Mark's breakthrough invention, the Bi-Rotor combine.
"This intriguing tale weaves together the creativity and ingenuity of an inventor and the hurdles he and his partner face in selling and producing what appears to be an amazingly efficient Bi-Rotor combine."—Science News
"Canine writes with style and flourish. . . Dream Reaper is a riveting journey into America's heartland, where necessity is the mother of invention—and hard work, conviction, and sacrifice are its lifeblood."—People Magazine
"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."—Publishers Weekly
"Craig Canine's Dream Reaper is a delight. It's an important book, rich with history and stories. It brings our most essential industry—farming—into new perspective. Reading it made me want to get out a crop."—Bobbie Ann Mason
A volume in the Sloan Technology Series. The series presents to a general audience highly readable accounts of the development of 20th century technologies and the ways these have shaped and are shaped by society.
"This intriguing tale weaves together the creativity and ingenuity of an inventor and the hurdles he and his partner face in selling and producing what appears to be an amazingly efficient Bi-Rotor combine."—Science News
"Canine writes with style and flourish. . . Dream Reaper is a riveting journey into America's heartland, where necessity is the mother of invention—and hard work, conviction, and sacrifice are its lifeblood."—People Magazine
"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."—Publishers Weekly
"Craig Canine's Dream Reaper is a delight. It's an important book, rich with history and stories. It brings our most essential industry—farming—into new perspective. Reading it made me want to get out a crop."—Bobbie Ann Mason
A volume in the Sloan Technology Series. The series presents to a general audience highly readable accounts of the development of 20th century technologies and the ways these have shaped and are shaped by society.
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Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
We take for granted that farmers will get us fed, though less than a century ago, a huge majority of us had to help out at harvest time to make sure. This book is about how advances to the technology of farming were made and are still being made. It is about the harvesting machines, or "combines", and about how these machines were invented. The larger story is about how the odds are stacked against those who dare to advance technology in a meaningful way. We meet modern day renegade heros, who continue to work very hard to overcome the great odds stacked against technology developers.
I work as a product developer in "fastening technology" for a major company. Craig Canine's book about the inventors of harvesters teaches more about the process of technology development than any book I've read.
Format:Taschenbuch
I first learned of the book The Dream Reaper, by Craig Canine, from FarmDayta, which carried a series of discussion groups written by Barry Weber of Galesburg, Illinois. He advised all farmers to read the book, telling us it was about the development of the Bi-Rotor combine. I have been asking for this book since first hearing of it sometime in 1995, and found it in paperback at a bookstore just last week. Originally published by Alfred A.Knopf in 1995, the 1997 paperback edition is from The University of Chicago Press.
I found this book to be much more than a story of the bi-rotor combine. For purpose of explanation of the importance of this new combine concept, Canine has added the history of the reaper. I learned Cyrus McCormick was not the inventor of the reaper, as I had been taught in the elementary grades. Since combines harvest both corn and small grains, the author describes the crops, and wove into the story the history of the crops to be harvested, including an excellent description of the development of hybrid corn.
Mr. Canine exposes the development of the tractors that prepare the soil for seeding those crops, including the competition between manufacturers who sold those machines. The sub-plot of history alone justifies reading this book, as anyone who operates the machinery of agriculture will benefit from an understanding of all the processes involved in the development and marketing of the tools involved in production.
As the reader turns the pages of the book, the struggles, breakthroughs, and disappointments of the developers are revealed in a genuine story of real-life imagery. I often felt myself a part of the project, as I recognized several references to publicity that had appeared in farm magazines during the period of development. For a time, the bi-rotor was a Cat combine, but at the last moment they bowed out of the project. I feel this may be as big a blunder for Cat as its earlier decision at the fir st of the century to sell its combine business to John Deere.
Many references in @g Online discussion groups have been made by contributors who have found this book, and in each case, the person who had read this book advised everyone investigate what this book might tell each individual.
We learn at the end of the book which major agricultural manufacturer finally ends up with the development rights to this new concept combine, and I eagerly await its production in the future. Rumor has it the combine has gone through some radical changes during development under the new patent owners, and it might be in production sometime in the next few years.
If you farm, grew up on a farm, work in an agriculture-related business, or just enjoy farm equipment, this is a must-read book!
Format:Taschenbuch
My wife and I agree that there is a certain type of non-fiction work that qualifies as a classic "Rick book." Such a book focuses on a single, quite narrow, topic well off the beaten path. Craig Canine's Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Investor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture fits the bill admirably, and is a great book besides. Canine tells two stories. The principal account - and ostensible subject of the book - is of two Kansans, a farmer-tinkerer and his cousin salesman, as they design, refine, and attempt to find investors for a radically new farm machine, a "bi-rotor combine." This highlights the difficulties in bringing to market, in the modern world of restricted markets and a limited number of manufacturers (John Deere, IH, a few others), a greatly improved but radically different machine. The second account, which places the story of the invention in context, is Canine's excellent overview of mechanized agriculture over the last 150 years. Canine's writing is consistently excellent, and his accounts never less than compelling. As the inventors struggle to meet production deadlines while tempers fray and financing becomes tight, the tension is every bit as palpable as any novel. You really want these guys to succeed against very high odds.
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