An invention at the heart of our modern world helped create radios, cars and smartphones. The team from Planet Money traces ...

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RACINE, WI—Before the age of the modern automobile, an inventor in Racine named Reverend Dr. John Wesley Carhart designed and operated the first light self-propelled highway vehicle in the United ...