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Posted by Alan Follett on Thu Jul 30 17:19:54 2015, in response to The Roads Must Roll, posted by ntrainride on Thu Jul 30 08:39:30 2015. And this preceded Heinlein's story by sixteen years or so. I wonder if RAH was aware of this or other similar real-world engineering proposals. He almost certainly would also have encountered a similar idea in H. G. Wells' 1899 novel /The Sleeper Awakes/.Alan Follett Hercules, CA |