    
Title: The first city subway Description: The first city subway, begun in 1869, was complete and operational from Warren to Murray streets, consisting of an underground tube through which a cylindrical car was blown and sucked by a steam-power blower. This underground rapid transit system operated for two years where citizens took demonstration twenty-five cent rides, but the inventive system was considered only a novelty and its creator failed to secure a franchise, the idea abandoned and not reborn until the twentieth century; public conveyance; public transit; public transportation; rapid transit; Location: New York, New York, 1870 Keywords: subways, trains, underground railroads, underground railways Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1200 x 1442 (1.73 MPixels) (1.20) Print Size: 10.2 x 12.2 cm; 4.0 x 4.8 inches File Size: 4.96 MB (5,197,194 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095782 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
