Archinect - News 2024-05-03T08:45:04-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/14295811/a-brief-history-of-the-pneumatic-tube-transport-systems-that-never-were A brief history of the pneumatic tube transport systems that never were Archinect 2011-07-22T18:32:12-04:00 >2011-07-22T18:32:26-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/dc/dcc54d2b83e1b541868756795ff7c858?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Alfred Ely Beach is best known for his invention of New York City's first concept for a subway: the Beach Pneumatic Transit, which would move people rapidly from one place to another in "cars" propelled along long tubes by compressed air.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>