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The Hyperloop: A 200-Year History of Hype and Failure

21 Jan 2025 | Abstracted from The Reader

"On August 12, 2013, Elon Musk, at that time the chairman of Tesla, released his Hyperloop Alpha paper...many ideas for a system with most of those properties have been proposed and should be acknowledged, reaching as far back as Robert Goddard...

"The historical record shows that there is nothing new about any of these ideas, that the basic concept for the fifth mode of transportation has been around for more than 200 years."

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