Beach Pneumatic Transit
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The Beach Pneumatic Transit was an early technology demonstrator for underground public transit in New York City. Running on pneumatic power, it was built by Alfred Ely Beach between 1869 and early 18
Photograph c.1873
Beach Pneumatic plan
Broadway underground railway (1872), New York
Illustration of the interior of the pneumatic passenger-car, 1872
The Crystal Palace Pneumatic Railway was an experimental atmospheric railway that ran in Crystal Palace Park in south London in 1864.
Beach Pneumatic Transit
…tunneling shield design from rectangular to circular until The New York Times wrote an article describing the original Beach tunneling shield in 1870. The Crystal Palace pneumatic railway was a similar but longer system which operated in 1864 on the grounds of the Crystal Palace in London. The Beach Pneumatic Transit is featured in the…
Engraving of the Crystal Palace line (1864)