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Title: The best book about product development that I've read.
Review: 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.
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