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 ...

Our first underground transit system in NYC was a pneumatic subway created by Alfred Ely Beach, and despite being constructed back in the 1870s, some aspects of it were a lot nicer than the crowded ...

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 ...

__1870: __Inventor Alfred Ely Beach opens New York City's first subway line, a pneumatic demonstration project in a 300-foot tunnel under Broadway. Beach first demonstrated pneumatic transit at the ...

A secret project, defying the government, helped build America’s first subway. It only ran for three years but carried hundreds of thousands of passengers, even though it only spanned 312 feet. And it ...

Yesterday afternoon, Elon Musk revealed his plans for a system that could revolutionize transit. This isn’t the first time a private entrepreneur has taken on transportation in America, though. In ...

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 ...