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Feb. 18, 2011
Rumbling Underground, An Engineering Feat
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| In 2009, 1.6 billion people hopped on the New York City subway. But how was it built? MTA Capital Construction president Michael Horodniceanu and historian Clifton Hood discuss the engineering techniques used to tunnel through Manhattan--from sticks of dynamite to a one-million-pound tunnel-boring machine. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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Michael Horodniceanu
President, Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Capital Construction Company
New York, New York -
Clifton Hood
Author, "722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York" (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
Professor, History
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, New York
RELATED READING
722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
by Clifton Hood
The City Beneath Us: Building the New York Subway
by New York Transit Museum
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