The Race to Construct the First Subway | The Engineering that Built the World (S1) | History

Uninformative lying spreader of disinformation and we know this by the way they talk about President Trump and nobody once they hear what WHDH has the say about President Trump

Whdh 5 Boston has to be the most

Funny, at 1:41 the photo shows the Budapest Opera House. In 1896 they also opened an underground 3.7 km long with 11 stations. Incidentally, it was the first electric in the world

It's sad to see that America was one of the first to build subways and yet...had turned their backs on them in favour of car dependency.

Meanwhile Metro Manila in the Philippines started building its own Subway

Watching on the 120th anniversary of the NYC Subway 🗽

Boston won the subway wars

Was just in New York, I was impressed with their subway system.

The subway system was hand down my favorite part of NYC when I visited there last year. Wish we had build subway systems all over America instead of roads.

Thanks for the video. I always knew Boston was first with the trolley subway. I live in Philadelphia and we were not far behind since in 1907 the Market street el and subway was built. Our system is smaller but we have both two subways as well as the trolley sharing the subway with the el system under Market Street and acts as the local stops between 30th street and City Hall.

Population in Manhattan is dense, so traffic problem could be solved via public transportation that Subway is the best solution. Scientists are very important who calculate the expansion and conduct NYC behind politicians...

If you are in such a race to build this thing, why all of the expensive, and time consuming artwork, arches, and tilework involved in all of it. There are thousands of things, these builders did, that were for aesthetic value only. Very skilled and time consuming construction techniques, that would only slow this project down. The construction photos, look as if they are cleaning out, and existing tunnel, that had collapsed. My hunch, is that most to tunnels had not, and were cleaned out, and repurposed, as an underground railway system. Tunneling through solid granite, is a bad idea today, and it would have been an impossible idea then.

I wonder if it legit!

I have an old schematic of the Harlem River Tunnel North Approach.

Was the Harlem River Tunnel built more than once? As a 2 track system and then a 4 track?

Wow

I thought that this was going to be about London and some city's underground of which I was not aware. ... Nope.

Too bad it’s too dangerous to use anymore. I used it without fear but that was in 2008.

Just fyi London had the first subway in the world.

From India. Amazing engineering really. Earlier read that initially passengers felt uncomfortable with no air. Is it correct? When fans and then first air conditioning came in?

Notice this left wing channel says mostly immigrants & blacks built the NYC subway. That's a lie. It was predominantly LEGAL Italian immigrants, period.

And if it’s so great and historical, why it’s so terrible today?

The Brits were first.

Once again we can't just be presented with the story we have to hear every ones unwanted fckng opinion and take on it.

The U.S. is like 100 years behind. Europe knows what they are doing.

Why is Pete buttgig in this? He sucks at transportation.

Really trying to push Pete here as an expert...I see what you did there.

Ahh first in america i see.

Epic video of Epic engineering achievement 😎!

Why did we have to see know nothing Petey Buttajig?

This show was made especially for me. It is quite short, and I look forward to watching any upcoming video shows about other subway systems. I am eager to learn more than before.

Boston subway was then inspired Bradfields Suburban City Underground Railway Scheme. The result was the City Cirlc (finally completed in 1956) and the Harbour Bridge route which opened in 1932. And that meant the Sydney's first Subway commuter electric train aka the red rattler

So cool!

I think the original alignment of the Boston subway was abandoned. It goes a different way now. Although it still goes through Park Street. The Market Street Subway in Philadelphia was opened in 1907 from 15th Street to Upper Darby and extended east from city hall in later years.

NYC has had "subway" service since 1867 as the first section of the 9th Avenue El was opened back then. Boston
and London may have had an underground subway before NYC but NYC had an extensive elevated system by 1897. By that time all 4 north south Manhattan evevateds were in operation (2, 3, 6, and 9 avenues). There were a few in Brooklyn too by 1897 including the Fulton, Myrtle, Jamaica, 5th Ave, and West End elevated routes.

Only real difference is NYC decided to go with elevated routes in the early days of rapid transit whereas London and Boston went with underground routes. Chicago also went with elevated routes.

0:40 I detest that thing. 🤠

Granville T Woods black inventor of the electric third rail power system isn't mentioned.

And they don't mention Edison's real contribution or JP Morgan or Tesla! It's really a shame the age of information just keep dropping things off.

Im surprised they were able to pull Mayor Pete away from paternity leave to do this interview. "Durrrr.... I like trains."