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For the modern transit system to develop, a number of critical enabling technologies were needed. By the beginning of the 19th century, some basic inventions had already been developed, but others were not yet on the immediate horizon.
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Roess, R.P., Sansone, G. (2013). Enabling Technologies. In: The Wheels That Drove New York. Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30484-2_3
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