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Ep. 14 - Vacuum Trains: The Hyperloop from 1904

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Ep. 14 - Vacuum Trains: The Hyperloop from 1904

Airless tunnels?  Check.  Magnetically-levitated trains?  Check.  Promises of insanely-fast travel?  Also check.  But this isn't Elon Musk's Hyperloop, Alfred Beach and Robert Goddard had him beat by over a hundred years.


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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit

https://untappedcities.com/2020/04/20/nycs-first-subway-a-one-block-pneumatic-tunnel-below-broadway/
https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/beach-pneumatic-transit-the-1870-subway-that-could-have-been
https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit

https://gizmodo.com/the-scifi-story-robert-h-goddard-published-100-years-a-1494959842

https://web.wpi.edu/Images/CMS/Goddard/goddard-high-speed-train.pdf
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2511979A/en

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