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Compare to the shorter range bounce tube from Robert Heinlein's 1956 story Double Star. See also the single vehicle tunnel from Foundation (1951) by Isaac Asimov, the
submarine tube from An Express of the Future (1895) by Jules Verne, the
sub-Atlantic tube from Ralph 124c 41 + (1911) by Hugo Gernsback, the
vacutubes from Double Star (1956) by Robert Heinlein, the tubecar from The Faceless Men (1948) by Leo Zagat and the public tubes from The Houses of Iszm (1954) by Jack Vance.
The concept was originally proposed for freight delivery by George Medhurst, a London businessman in the early nineteenth century. His second proposal in 1812 was for a system that delivered people Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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