A century ago, futurists predicted that pneumatic tubes would be the transportation systems of tomorrow. That idea never came to fruition – until recently. Stanford University’s medical center ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link. Save Saved Read in app ... NASA started using pneumatic tubes as intra-office communication in the 1960s. And until 2011, a ...

Pneumatic Mail Container, 1953. In the late 1890s, networks of pneumatic tube systems were installed under city streets to move the mail. Each pneumatic tube canister could hold up to 500 letters. The ...

Zooming Through the Tubes: The Pneumatic Mail Networks Hidden Under City Streets. By Ella Morton. Nov 06, 2013 8:16 AM. Pneumatic tubes at New York’s Pennsylvania Terminal post office, circa 1914.

Elon Musk wants to revolutionize transportation with high-speed trains in enormous pneumatic tubes. Such trains could theoretically whisk people from Los Angeles to New York in 45 minutes.

They used this pneumatic tube system, which carried reports/stock order in capsules through a system of pipes. Let's walk through how it works. Here's the pneumatic tubing station that dates from ...

From the late 1900s, pneumatic tubes carried mail across the cities of the US and Europe – Paris had 450 kilometres of… Advertisement Sign up to our weekly newsletter ...