NYC’s first subway was a pneumatic tube that moved passengers one block

Jul 12, 2021 |

Image via Rawpixel/ Wikimedia Commons Nearly 150 years ago, something quite momentous happened in New York history: the first subway line was opened to the public. The system was the invention of Alfred Ely Beach and his company Beach Pneumatic Transit Company. Beach put up $350,000 of his own money to build the first prototype and tunnel […more]

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