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Ginning Cotton: An Entrepreneur's Story

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12/1996. pages.
0896723712
978-0-89672-371-9

$34.95 cloth



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Ginning Cotton: An Entrepreneur's Story

By A. L. Vandergriff

His first job was in a cotton gin at the age of nine. Today as an octogenarian, A. L. Vandergriff still has not lost his commitment to advancing technology in the industry he loves.

Ginning Cotton: An Entrepreneur's Story offers an opportunity to follow the technological advancements in the ginning and processing industry made by a cotton legend. "Vandy" developed many of the most revolutionary engineering innovations of this century and in this volume he explains the technology and the historical context of its development. To know the story of the development of modern cotton ginning, you need to know Vandergriff's story.

"When I started in the gin business in 1937, there were six different companies manufacturing and selling gin equipment. Today, only three remain. I have been Executive Vice-President of one, President of the other, and the third one's main product line is of my design."







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