The Beach Pneumatic Transit was the first attempt to build an underground public transit system in New York City. It was developed by Alfred Ely Beach in...
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design of the earliest predecessor to the New York City Subway, the Beach Pneumatic Transit, which became the first subway in America. He was an early owner...
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public transit system in New York City. In 1869, Alfred Ely Beach and his Beach Pneumatic Transit Company of New York began constructing a pneumatic subway...
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The pneumatic dispatch... (1868) by Alfred Beach (scanned pages) Beach Pneumatic Alfred Beach's Pneumatic Subway and the beginnings of rapid transit in...
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MBTA subway (category Underground rapid transit in the United States)
1897, making it the oldest transit subway in the United States still in use. (Only the short-lived Beach Pneumatic Transit demonstration line in New York...
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album 3:47 EST, describing the efforts of Alfred Ely Beach to create the Beach Pneumatic Transit, the New York City Subway's precursor. His work is described...
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Pneumatic vehicle may refer to: Compressed-air vehicle Pneumatic tube Beach Pneumatic Transit London Pneumatic Despatch Company Crystal Palace pneumatic...
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novel Strange Air by fantasy writer Tom Brown. Atmospheric railway Beach Pneumatic Transit – a similar atmospheric railway that operated in New York City...
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Atmospheric railway (redirect from Pneumatic transit)
Alfred E. Beach's Beach Pneumatic Transit, running for one block under Broadway in New York City from 1870 to 1873, demonstrated both pneumatic operation...
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propulsion. Beach Pneumatic Transit was operated from 1870 to 1873 as a one-block-long prototype of an underground tube transport public transit system in...
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