The First Subway
In 1904, just a year after the Wright Brothers’ first flight, New York City opened its first subway with a 9.1-mile track and 28 stations, and George McClellan, the City’s mayor, even drove the first passengers. Despite being an incredible feat of engineering, people initially saw it as more of a spectacle than a practical mode of transportation.
Nevertheless, it quickly became an essential part of daily life in New York and paved the way for the development of other subway systems around the world.