# \#subway

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## [Pneumatic Tubes for People—New York City's First Subway](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/pneumatic-tubes-for-people-new-york-citys-first-subway/1719)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
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**Last updated:** [21 July 2022 13:31 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/pneumatic-tubes-for-people-new-york-citys-first-subway/1719 "2022-07-21T13:31:48Z")

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The undoing of Alfred Beach’s pneumatic subway may not have been technological or economic, but rather, as Glenn Reynolds says, that in a New York run by Boss Tweed’s Democrat machine, it offered insuffici…