Boing Boing: New York's steampunk pneumatic subway

Wednesday, August 3, 2005

posted by Cory Doctorow at 10:33:53 PM permalink | Other blogs' comments

suggest a link \| defeat censorware \| rss \| archives \| t-shirts \| digital emporium \| podcast feed \| mark \| cory \| david \| xeni \| john
Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	Wednesday, August 3, 2005 New York's steampunk pneumatic subway New York's Beach Pneumatic Subway of the late 1800 was one of New York's first attempts at rapid transit, and it was a strange, wonderful, impractical and politicallly fraught endeavor. Joseph Brennan, an amateur historian of the Beach Pneumatic, has written an excellent, engaging, and frighteningly comprehensive history of the Pneumatic, with lavish illustrations, aimed at separating the mythology from the truth. Link (Thanks, Robyn!) posted by Cory Doctorow at 10:33:53 PM permalink \| Other blogs' comments Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: