Engineering Disasters: How Do Oil Refineries Work? | History

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Engineering Disasters
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"Engineering Disasters" combines expert and eyewitness interviews, state-of-the-art graphics, and dramatic "moment of disaster" footage to tell the stories behind the world's most terrifying engineering disasters.

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