The Hidden History of Pneumatic Tubes | The Saturday Evening Post
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The Hidden History of Pneumatic Tubes | The Saturday Evening Post
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One of the greatest poets of our time
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Pneumatic tubes were used to move mail in New York City, London, Germany, and Washington, D.C., and even transport food, cats, and yes, people.
I'll take bad ideas for 1000.
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There was a huge network of pneumatic tubes under Paris used by the postal services between 1866 and 1980.
With that you could send a letter to any address in the city that would arrive in less than 2 hours.
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Cool video 👍
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A series of tubes, you say?
I used to haunt surplus yards as a high schooler in the 1980’s. There were a lot of pneumatic tube components to be found as the world was switching to electronic networking. Pumps, boxes of o-ring seals, tubes and junction fittings.
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Wish there were more of these still
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Yeah, they're pretty much only in bank drive-up windows and maybe some office buildings. It really is a shame because they're so cool.
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A lot of hospitals have them too
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The elevator tubes on the Jetson's were probably based on these.
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Wow, I never made that connection
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Futurama too, I would assume - even if only indirectly via the Jetsons.
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Ted Stevens version of the Internet.
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Ahhh reminds me of my youth.
Tried to build these in our garage with PVC pipe, a blowtorch (to heat and bend tubes), and a shop vac.
Went about as well as you can imagine, but still had a blast.