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INDEX
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Accommodation (carriage)
Adams, Cyrus
airplanes
air quality in subways
Albany, New York
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
Algonquin Club
Allen, Horace G.
American Institute Fair
Crystal Palace of
American Museum of Natural History
Amory, William Nowland
Annetello, Alfonzo
Arcade Railroad
archaeological finds
Arthur, Chester A.
Astoria, New York
Atlanta, Georgia
Auburn Tunnel, Pennsylvania
automobiles
Aztecs
Babylonians
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore Belt Railroad
barge travel
Baring Brothers & Co.
Barone, Joseph
Barrett, Henry
baseball
Bates, Amelia M. and Georgianna H.
battery-powered rail cars
Beach, Alfred Ely
secret tunnel under Broadway
Beach, Frederick
Beach, Moses Yale
Beach Institute, Savannah, Georgia
Beach Pneumatic Transit Company
Beacon Street, Boston
Beal, B. Leighton
Beamish, Richard
Beckford, William
bedrock
Bell, Alexander Graham
Belmont, August
Belmont, August, Jr.
death of
finances Cape Cod canal
finances New York subway
obtains charter to operate subway
at
opening of New York subway
and subway construction
and transit plans
Belt Line Street Railway Company (New York)
fire in stables of (1886)
search for a new power source for streetcars
Bentley, Edward
Berlin
bicycles
Big Dig (Boston)
“Black Friday” (September 24, 1869)
Blaine, James G.
Blaxton, William
blizzard of 1888
blizzard of 2013
Board of Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners (New York)
Borges, Jorge Luis
Boston
1840–1890 population growth
1890 population
birthplace of innovation
land speculation
municipal government
Boston Board of Railroad Commissioners
Boston Common
The Boston Evening Record
The Boston Evening Transcript
Boston Gas Light Company
The Boston Globe
Boston & Maine Railroad
Boston Post
Boston Public Library
Boston subway
bids for construction
blizzard of 2013
building of
connection with elevated lines
construction methods
construction workers
cost of
damage to, possible, after gas explosion
deaths during construction
depth of
design
groundbreaking for
injuries during construction
lack of official recognition of its opening
legislation and referendum enabling
length of lines
opening day (September 1, 1897)
operation of
opposition to
praised by New York visitors
public construction and ownership of
question of where to dig
ridership
tours of
walls and roofs of
Boston Transit Commission
Boston transit system
1825 traffic
1840s traffic
1850s traffic
1890s traffic
before consolidation
consolidated from individual lines
electrification of
planning of
public ownership recommended
rapid transit commission
subway vs. elevated lines debate
traffic congestion
tunnels planned
Boswell, William A.
Bowery, New York City
Bowne, Walter
Bradford, William
braking systems, electric
Broadway, New York City
Beach’s tunnel under
travel along
tunneling under, proposed
Broadway & Seventh Avenue Railroad
Brookline, Massachusetts
Brooklyn, New York
absorbed by New York City
elevated rails in
Brooklyn Bridge
deaths while building
opening celebrations
Brooklyn Museum
Brower, Abraham
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Brunel, Marc Isambard
Bryan, William Jennings
Bryant, William Cullen
Buchanan, James
Budapest
burial grounds, encountered on subway digs
Burt, George
Bushe, Eugene
Butler, Nicholas Murray
Byrne, Samuel J.
Byron, Lord
Cable Building, Broadway, New York
cables
as power source
in subways
cable streetcars
cities with systems of
disadvantages of
in New York City
Cambridge Railroad (Boston)
Canal Street, New York
canal tunnels
Cape Cod Canal
Carnegie, Andrew
Carnegie Steel Company
Carr, James
carriages, private
Carroll, John
Carson, Howard Adams
Castle Garden, New York
Chambers & Grand Street Ferry Railroad Company
Chanute, Octave
Cheatham, William
Chicago, Illinois
electrification
elevated rails
population
subway
World’s Fair (Columbian Exposition, 1893)
Church, Sanford E.
Cincinnati, Ohio
City and South London Railway (London)
City Hall, Boston
Civil Service Commission
Civil War, American
Clapp, W. W.
Clark, J. Latimer
Clement, Judith
Cleveland, Grover
marriage to Flora Folsom
Cleveland, Ohio
coach-making industry
coal used for underground locomotives
cobblestone streets, travel on
Coliseum (Rome)
Collins, Laurinda
collisions, subway
Cologne
Colosseum (Rome)
Columbia School of Mines
Columbia University
Columbus Circle, New York
Commission to Promote Rapid Transit for the City of Boston and Its Suburbs
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
commuters, in 1825
conductors
first subway
Connors, Maurice
Conway, Massachusetts
Cooper, Edward
Cooper, Hewitt & Co.
Cooper, Peter
The Courier & Inquirer
Crawford and Company
Crocker, Charles
Crocker, George G.
Croker, Edward F.
Croker, Richard
Crosby, Oscar T.
crossings on separated grades
Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition (London, 1882)
Cummings, Prentiss
Curtis, Edwin
Daft, Leo
The Daily Advertiser
Dalton, Charles H.
Darlington, Dr. Thomas
Davis, C. W.
the dead, encountered on subway digs
deaths
electrical accidents
rail accidents
tunneling accidents
Degnon Contracting Company
Delmonico’s Restaurant, New York City
Democratic Party
Denver Railroad, Land & Coal Co.
department stores
derailments
devils, underground
Devlin, Daniel and Jeremiah
Dickens, Charles
Dimock, Henry
dirt, hauling away
Doherty, William
Dominion Coal Company
doors on subway cars
dynamite
dynamo
Eagen, Michael
Edison, Thomas
early career
electrical interests
and electric lighting
and electric motors
hires Sprague
inventions
meets Ford
mentioned
undercuts Sprague’s reputation
Edison Electric Company
Electrical World
electric lighting
electric locomotives
electric motors
electric power
commercial development of
compared to steam power, as to cost
delivery method (overhead wires or underground)
for transit
electric railroads
advantages of
development of
Edison’s opinion
multiple-unit control
number of
test runs
electric streetcars
opponents of
elevated railroads, urban
in Boston
danger of
halted by the blizzard of 1888
in New York City
number of passengers
objections to
preferred to subways
property values lowered by
simplicity of construction
elevators into subways
Elkins, William
Ellis Island
Ellsworth, Elmer Ephraim
England
Epps, Moses
Erie Canal, New York
Erie Railroad
Europe, transit systems in
Evening Mail
Everson, Edward W.
Everson and Liddle
“Everson Stockade”
explosions during subway construction
fans, as power source
fares
nickel
farming
ferry boats
fertilizer industry
financial crises. See also panics
firsts
electrically powered subway
New York subway ride
paying passenger in Boston
paying passenger in Richmond
pickpocketing in a subway
pneumatic railway tube
street railway accident
subway accident
subway conductor
subway motorman
tunnel for vehicular traffic
Fitzgerald, John Francis
Folsom, Frances
Folsom, Oscar
Ford, Henry
Fourteenth Street armory, New York City
Fowler, Sir John
Gaffney, Patrick
Gaines, Henry
garment industry
gas leaks
and explosion in the Boston subway construction
gay nineties
General Electric
George, Henry
Gilded Age
glanders epidemic (New York, 1870)
Glasgow
gold, price of
Goodrich, Arthur
Gould, Jay
Grace, William R.
grain elevators
Grand Central Terminal, New York
Grant, Hugh J.
Grant, Ulysses S.
Great Epizootic Outbreak (1872)
Greathead, James Henry
Greeley, Horace
Green, Joseph F.
Green, Margaret
Green, Dr. Samuel
Greene, Asa
Greene, Dana
Greenhalge, Frederic Thomas
Groake, James
Grogan, Michael
Guild, Courtenay
Hackett, Paul
Hall, Abraham
Hamilton, Alexander
Hardeman, James
Harecastle canal tunnel, Staffordshire, England