Bill Lear invented radio equipment, the 8-track player, the Lear Jet, and founded the Vapordyne company to research steam-powered vehicles. Notable events in his life include working with a deposed monarch, naming his daughter after a lighting fixture, and the fateful purchase of a sailboat.
Plus: Bryant contemplates e-bikes, Conner pisses off the neighbors, and Zach's Danger Ranger accumulates problems.
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Bryant was wrong, Horatio Alger was an author, not a fictional character. He wrote lots of "rags to riches" novels. This was one of his most famous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragged_Dick //
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Lear with the Indy car and CHP test car under construction: https://youtu.be/nJ2nmyhSBAk //
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