On this episode of Our American Stories, Tim Harford, an economist and best selling author of Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy, tells the story of these three underappreciated inventions in history.

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Tim Harford, an economist and best selling author of <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FFifty-Inventions-Shaped-Modern-Economy%2Fdp%2F0735216134%2Fref%3Dtmm_hrd_swatch_0%3F_encoding%3DUTF8%26dib_tag%3Dse%26dib%3DeyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NcMxjmduvoPUM_Ff0GZQb-t_DquIo3EPFptpnEHGkTaE_H2Fyquzq9EeSh_LmLbN63o97-4RAiTGrtsCwmZOEYlWi7hE8XsTGUvQPWFnlPEVAl5ZPui-kFwiJ0eeadeBZZXRdGThMoM3Kua07ltb10AufITOii5X_cpmf_4nNyGOA-uDKePx1MV1hv7Futwc0QLLz4k0OVe4zEN7uQIBVBxVrxJxR6U9aar0Y7oHhZY.o67cb72vBQbZkUDL-fer4B83JjBKtthsIcC0JkSyVto%26qid%3D1725894644%26sr%3D8-1&amp;data=05%7C02%7CUraelBlackshear%40iheartmedia.com%7C85a9959439b64c83146608dcd1bd9fca%7C122a527e5b714eba878d9810b495b9e3%7C0%7C0%7C638615859567348153%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=v9eAEWv14zZ%2FLsjyqGxe%2FcvvD8JZB3fqc4jskJnVDRg%3D&amp;reserved=0" data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="0">Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy,</a> tells the story of these three underappreciated inventions in history.
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The Story of Air Conditioning, the Barcode, and the Elevator Brake!

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Larry Spencer tells the story of being one of the first POWs of the Vietnam war and surviving until war's end in both "The Zoo" prison and in the infamous Hanoi Hilton.

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Larry Spencer tells the story of being one of the first POWs of the Vietnam war and surviving until war's end in both "The Zoo" prison and in the infamous Hanoi Hilton.
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Surviving Hanoi: Larry Spencer's Story

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Paul Monti drives his son Jared's truck, an act which inspired the hit country song "I Drive Your Truck" by Lee Brice...but the story is much more than that of a song. Here's the story of Jared Monti, a true hero who died in service of our country trying to save a fellow soldier in the mountains of Afghanistan.

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Paul Monti drives his son Jared's truck, an act which inspired the hit country song "I Drive Your Truck" by Lee Brice...but the story is much more than that of a song. Here's the story of Jared Monti, a true hero who died in service of our country trying to save a fellow soldier in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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A Medal of Honor Recipient Through The Eyes of His Father

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On this episode of Our American Stories, in the late 1960s, Karl Marlantes was presented with a choice. Serve in a war that he saw as unjust, desert to Algeria or Sweden, or stay at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and hide behind that privilege as his high school friends fought and died in the jungle of Vietnam. Marlantes chose to serve. But why?

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On this episode of Our American Stories, in the late 1960s, Karl Marlantes was presented with a choice. Serve in a war that he saw as unjust, desert to Algeria or Sweden, or stay at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and hide behind that privilege as his high school friends fought and died in the jungle of Vietnam. Marlantes chose to serve. But why?
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Karl Marlantes: Why I Chose to Go to Vietnam

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The Story of Air Conditioning, the Barcode, and the Elevator Brake!

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