New York's secret subway the underground genius of Alfred Beach and the origins of mass transit
In the nineteenth century, Manhattan's streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath Broadway from the Battery to Harlem. Air pressure...
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Washington, DC :
Island Press,
[2025]
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