About the Author

Richard Dwight Porcher, Jr., is professor emeritus at the Citadel and adjunct professor of biological sciences at Clemson University, USA, where he established the Wade T. Batson Endowment in field botany. Porcher is the author of Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry and Lower Pee Dee, and the coauthor of A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina (both by the University of South Carolina Press) and The Story of Sea Island Cotton. Porcher serves as a trustee of the South Carolina Nature Conservancy and on the board of directors of the Charleston Library Society, the Waring Library, and the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation. He is the 2008 recipient of the South Carolina Environmental Awareness Award.

William Robert Judd, a self-taught draftsman/artist, archaeologist, and historian, is retired from the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPARWAR).

Reviews

... a well-executed study of the evolution of technology and the growth of one of America's staple industries.-- "The North Carolina Historical Review"

Porcher and Judd have provided an excellent reference book.... All historians of the South, agriculture, and technology should have it on their shelves.-- "The Journal of Southern History"

The discussion of technology, in terms of equipment and water flow technology is excellent.-- "L.S. Cline. Choice Connect"