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American Innovations

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Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

After experimenting on himself, Horace Wells realized that laughing gas might help make surgeries less painful. But his search for a business partner would lead him to a fateful encounter with a petty crook named William Morton.

This episode originally aired on November 15, 2020.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American innovations, add free on Amazon music, download
0:06.0	the app today.
0:14.4	It's August, 1840, a hot sticky afternoon in St. Louis.
0:20.0	Inside the offices of a saddle-making company, JB Sickles Incorporated, a bookkeeper named
0:26.2	Mordecai De Lang is going through a stack of mail when he suddenly stops cold.
0:33.0	Where did that Morton fellow say he'd come from?
0:36.3	You know, before here.
0:38.1	His boss, James Sickles, Yannes, and Swats of Fly.
0:42.1	Cincinnati, what's gotten into you?
0:44.2	Your white is a sheet.
0:45.9	De Lang thrust the letter into Sickles' hands.
0:49.3	This letter concerns one William Morton a fraud, a cheat, a scoundrel of the highest
0:56.0	order.
0:57.0	He skims the rest.
0:58.6	Oh my God, when did Morton leave for New Orleans?
1:01.5	A few days ago.
1:02.6	He's probably there by now.
1:04.6	How much credit did we give him?
1:06.4	$7,000.
1:07.4	Christ will be ruined.
1:10.2	There's a scramble in the office.
1:12.5	Send a letter out on the next steamboat down.
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