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a shape so simple it carries your blood, your toothpaste, and your trains underground
means A hollow cylinder used to carry or contain something, from pipes and toothpaste packaging to the cylindrical structures of bodies and machines.
from From Latin 'tubus,' a pipe or tube, which arrived in English via French in the 17th century. The British underground railway earned the nickname 'the Tube' for the tunnel-shaped tubes its trains run through, while 'the tube' as slang for television comes from the cathode-ray tube once glowing inside every set.
- london nickname
- the world's first underground railway, opened 1863
- vacuum origins
- early computers ran on glowing glass tubes
- hollow strength
- tubes resist bending better than solid rods of equal weight
- inner tube
- once kept tires inflated, now floats lazy rivers
- youtube echo
- the name nods to old slang for television
london underground — oldest subway system in the world, opened 1863 with 402 stations today
youtube — video sharing platform founded 2005, over 2 billion logged-in users monthly
large hadron collider — 17-mile particle accelerator at cern near geneva, discovered higgs boson 2012