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The passages describe a "Pneumatic Tube Electric Company" as a method of transportation in 2050 [1]. Passengers are "shot" into the country via this company, which offers a sub-marine route [1]. This route provides novel spectacles, including viewing sub-marine scenery through glass port-holes in circular cars [1, 2, 5].
The journey by pneumatic tube is described as having a terrific speed of five miles to the minute, making a three-thousand-mile trip ten hours long [2]. Passengers can also choose seats based on their preferred climate, with options for different temperatures, and some even booked themselves for the "bath department" with various types of baths attached to the line [1, 2]. The letter indicates this journey occurred in 2050 [4].
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of so obsolete an expression that it must entirely fail to convey to you a true idea of the processes of the journey. Had I written--I was safely _shot_ into the country--this would much more graphically describe to you the method of my arrival. You may remember, perhaps, that before starting I found myself in very grave doubt as to which route to take--whether to come by balloon or by tunnel. As the latter route would enable me to enjoy an entirely novel spectacle, that of viewing sub-marine scenery, I chose, and wisely I now know, to come by the Pneumatic Tube Electric Company.…
t command. The cars are indeed marked 70° Fahr., 80° and 100°. One buys one’s seat according to his taste for climate. Many of the travellers, I noticed, booked themselves for the bath department, remaining the entire journey in the Turkish, Russian, vapor or plunge departments--as the various baths attached to this line surpass a Roman voluptuary’s dream of such luxuries. I, however, never having been through the great tunnel before, was naturally more interested in what was passing so swiftly before my eyes. The speed at which we were shot was terrific--five miles to…
Your life-long friend and comrade, WOLFGANG. II. DEAR HANNEVIG: The three days’ time which has elapsed since my last letter to you, has been so crowded with a confusion of bewildered impressions produced by this astonishing city and its still more astonishing inhabitants, that I am in doubt whether I shall be able to convey to you any clearer pictures than those which fill the disordered canvas of my own mind. I will, however, strive to reproduce my experiences in the order in which they came to me, and allow you to…
Produced by David E. Brown and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) The Republic of the Future The Republic of the Future OR SOCIALISM A REALITY BY ANNA BOWMAN DODD. AUTHOR OF “OLD CATHEDRAL DAYS,” ETC. CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, 739 & 741 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. COPYRIGHT, 1887, By O. M. DUNHAM. Press W. L. Mershon & Co., Rahway, N. J. LETTERS FROM A SWEDISH NOBLEMAN LIVING IN THE 21ST CENTURY TO A…
ng able to take in all the wonders of ocean-land through large glass port-holes in the concave sides of circular cars. The tube itself, which is of iron, enormously thick, has glass sides, also of huge thickness, running parallel with the windows of the car so that the view is unobstructed. The sensations awakened, therefore, both by the novelty of the situation and by the wonders we passed in review, combined to make the journey thrillingly exciting. We were swept, for instance, past armies of fishes, beautiful to behold in such masses, shimmering in their opalescent armor as they…