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Also Known As underground railway • tube • métro • underground

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New York City subway construction in 1901
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Rio de Janeiro: subway
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John Bradfield
Australian engineer
The Metro Center Station in Washington, D.C., part of an 86-station subway system designed by Harry M. Weese and opened in 1976.
Harry M. Weese
American architect
Baker, Sir Benjamin
Sir Benjamin Baker
British engineer
Sir John Fowler, engraving by Thomas Oldham Barlow, 1868, after a portrait by Sir John Everett Millais; in the Science Museum, London.
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet
British engineer
Sir John Hawkshaw.
Sir John Hawkshaw
British engineer
August Belmont, Jr.
American banker

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