Back in the now-far-off year of 2013, Elon Musk announced his proposal for a novel "fifth mode of transport." A fully autonomous, ultra-high-speed transportation system that he himself christened the ...
On this day in 1870, inventor Alfred Ely Beach opened the Beach Pneumatic Transit, a subway-like attraction, to the public in New York, New York. Designed to demonstrate the viability of using ...
Under the cover of night, 20 feet below ground, laborers excavated an eight-foot-wide, 300-foot-long tunnel in downtown New York City. They worked for months in secret, and when it was finally ...