New York's Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origin
New York's Secret SubwayThe Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit
Author(s): Matthew Algeo
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, United States
Imprint: Island Press
ISBN-13: 9781642833652, 978-1642833652
Synopsis
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 would shoot
passengers up and down the island in clean, quiet carriages. But Beach was up against the
operators of the horse-drawn streetcars and the politicians in their pay, most conspicuously William M. Tweed, the notorious \""Boss\"" of Tammany Hall.
New York's Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit tells a classic story of good
versus evil, pitting the mild-mannered B.
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New York's Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origin
New York's Secret SubwayThe Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit
Author(s): Matthew Algeo
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, United States
Imprint: Island Press
ISBN-13: 9781642833652, 978-1642833652
Synopsis
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 would shoot
passengers up and down the island in clean, quiet carriages. But Beach was up against the
operators of the horse-drawn streetcars and the politicians in their pay, most conspicuously William M. Tweed, the notorious \""Boss\"" of Tammany Hall.
New York's Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit tells a classic story of good
versus evil, pitting the mild-mannered B.
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New York's Secret SubwayThe Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit
Author(s): Matthew Algeo
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, United States
Imprint: Island Press
ISBN-13: 9781642833652, 978-1642833652
Synopsis
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 would shoot
passengers up and down the island in clean, quiet carriages. But Beach was up against the
operators of the horse-drawn streetcars and the politicians in their pay, most conspicuously William M. Tweed, the notorious \""Boss\"" of Tammany Hall.
New York's Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit tells a classic story of good
versus evil, pitting the mild-mannered B.
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