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Sandler, Martin W.

Secret Subway: The Fascinating Tale of an Amazing Feat of Engineering

96 pp. | National | May, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4263-0462-0 $17.95 | Library ISBN 978-1-4263-0463-7 $26.90
(3) 4-6 In 1869, New Yorker Alfred Ely Beach, visionary engineer and inventor, began digging a tunnel for a pneumatic subway under Broadway. Beach knew that politics and public skepticism could stop his project, so all the work--digging, removing earth, installing equipment--was kept secret (his full subway was never built). This fascinating book, enhanced with archival drawings, details the remarkable, largely unknown story. Reading list, websites. Ind.
Reviewer: Gail Hedges

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