Perpetual Discovery, The
Broadcast: December 14, 1954
Added: Oct 20 2017
Many important things are discovered by accident, but none of them under stranger circumstances. Here was a substance no-one wanted to discover in the first place, and whose customers have continued to think up most of its uses. This is the story of the perpetual discovery - oil - and the chemist Robert Cheesebrough. The story begins one summer day in 1859...