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One of the world’s greatest conveniences was conceived amid its greatest hardships. 

Sylvan Goldman, son of immigrant pioneers, invented the shopping cart. 

His brilliantly simple idea was born in Oklahoma during global economic calamity and as the Great Plains were recovering from ecological disaster.

“The simplest inventions are always the most fascinating,” Larry O’Dell, the state historian for the Oklahoma Historical Society, told Fox News Digital. 

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