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Richard B. Harper, Principal


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Dick Harper founded Harper Company in 1984. He is an engineer, writer, boat builder, photographer, occasional college teacher, and arts council chair.

[Photo Credit: Anne Harper, Key West]

Experienced - Effective

      Dick brings the juice that makes a product line sing.
      In senior technical management slots with Fortune 500 manufacturers he created 80 new products and aggressively championed them. Now he leads a small firm that conceives popular products and initiates the technology leaps for manufacturing them.
      Since 1973, his engineering groups have designed and produced book and paper handling machinery, composite consumer products, custom production machinery, FRP molds, and specialty electronics. He has found new markets for 14 old products and built probably the best family sportboats around.

Pretty neat tech stuff

Breakthroughs, inventions, and productuct development in:
• Consumer products
• Material handling equipment
• Powerboat hulls
SoftRide™ active powerboat suspension

Invented, found markets, and developed tooling for:
• Circular saw kit
• Flow control faucet
hastia™ and Spitfire™ powerboats
• self-guided AGV platform
• Thin book pilemaker

Capture the World on Paper™

      Dick's articles on the arts, business, consumer issues, grown-up toys, and technology, have appeared in national, regional, and local publications. He writes a popular weekly newspaper column and has published technical manuals and textbooks.
      His fine art photographs appear in galleries and private collections from Vermont to Florida to the West Coast.
      Click here for a look at life in the arts.

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