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Modern Marvels
S3 E13 | The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
0h 46m|History, Science, Documentary, Technology, Anthology|1997
In 1973, a desperate America, starved by an OPEC embargo, began construction on an 800 mile lifeline for its oil hunger; study the technological triumph of the Alaskan oil pipeline built over mountains and tundra, where temperatures drop below zero.
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