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(译自APS News,2013年2月)隧道和气动运输系统是古典科幻小说的主题,从韦尔纳(Jules Verne)在20世纪的《巴黎》(Paris,1863年)开始,作者在书中想象着地下火车横越过海洋。1882年,罗毕达(Albert Robida)在他的小说《20世纪》(The Twentieth Century)中不仅描述地下火车,还提到了气动邮务系统。那些作家的虚构创作都基于实际建成的系统,有些至今仍存在着。1812年,有一位名叫梅德赫斯特(George Medhurst)的机械工程师认为,应该可以吹动载满乘
(Translated from APS News, February 2013) The tunnel and pneumatic transport system is the subject of classical science fiction, starting with Jules Verne in Paris in the 20th century (Paris, 1863), in the book Imagine the underground train crossing the ocean. In 1882, Albert Robida described not only the underground train in his novel The Twentieth Century, but also the pneumatic postal system. The fictional creations of those writers are based on systems actually built and some still exist today. In 1812, a mechanical engineer named George Medhurst thought it should be possible to blow a man with a full load