ZDF - Mission X Series 1 (2008) Part 4 The Pipeline Pioneer

Mission X Series 1

MISSION X explores the lives of the great inventors and scientists who made groundbreaking contributions to humanity.

Part 4 The Pipeline Pioneer

In 1878, Byron Benson saw a pipeline as the only way to break the railroad's hold on transporting oil. But the war to build a steel pipeline for oil to the East Coast, fought for years with gritty determination both in courtrooms and in the political arena, at times erupted into physical violence.

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