Get to know the story of how truck driver Malcom McLean invented the shipping container, and how it transformed the global economy.

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Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of "They Made America," describes how frustration drove Malcom McLean, a small-town truck driver, to invent the shipping container. Containerization was born, and it transformed the modern global economy.

Lesson by Sir Harold Evans, directed by Sunni Brown.

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