The world beneath the city
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Lippincott
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Public utilities; Anecdotes; History
Table of contents: title: Under the sidewalks of New York; title: Aaron Burr and the wooden water pipes; title: The great water celebration; title: Tunneling through the bedrock; title: Subways or els; title: Mr. Beach's marvelous pneumatic subway; title: Deathblow to subways; title: Birth pangs of the IRT; title: "Smelly" Kelly, subway sniffer; title: Nine miles of gas; title: Cigar stubs + lemon peels + pork fat = gas; title: Edison's magic "flooid"; title: the day tey chopped the poles down; title: Rats under the piecrust; title: The great sewer scandal; title: King of the sewers; title: Alligators in the sewers; title: The most delicate wires; title: The curious and the bizarre; title: A building goes up - and down.