Natural Gas Pipeline Development

It took the construction of pipelines to bring natural gas to new markets. Although one of the first lengthy pipelines was built in 1891 -it was 120 miles long and carried gas from fields in central Indiana to Chicago - there were very few pipelines built until after World War II in the 1940s. Improvements in metals, welding techniques and pipe making during the War made pipeline construction more economically attractive. After World War II, the nation began building its pipeline network. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of miles of pipeline were constructed throughout the United States. The National Transportation Safety Board is the body that oversees the transmission and distribution of natural gas in the US. The NTSB complies statistics on significant pipeline incidents, which resulted in deaths or injuries and/or sizeable property damage. In the past 20 years there have been 1,818 natural gas distribution incidents that killed 321 people, injured 1,325 and cost nearly $1 billion in property damage.
For more information, go to the NTSB website at http://www.ntsb.gov/ and the USDOE guide at http://www.fossil.energy.gov/education/energylessons/gas/HS_NatGas_Studyguide...
This is clipped from the 1959 film, These Are My People, produced by the Columbia Gas System and available at the Internet Archive.

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The good old days.