In 1882, Albert Robida described not only tube trains, but pneumatic postal delivery systems in his novel, The Twentieth Century. Those authors were quite prescient: versions of such systems were ...

Pneumatic Tube Mail system map of New York City from November ... alternative with greater capacity–the automobile–as the delivery method of choice.” In New York City, a successful lobby ...

Forget email: This 27-mile-long pneumatic tube network was NYC ... service to cease pneumatic delivery in 1953. One of the most high-profile pneumatic systems came courtesy of Alfred Ely Beach ...

That idea never came to fruition – until recently. Stanford University’s medical center uses a 4-mile-long pneumatic tube delivery system. And it saves lives. Before the tubes were installed ...

an underground network of pressurized air tubes that shot cylinders full of letters around a city. Pneumatic post systems began as delivery services for stock exchanges. Traders needed to receive ...

But it turns out that the potential exposure extends into the walls: Researchers have found almost a dozen vulnerabilities in a popular brand of pneumatic tube delivery system that many hospitals ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers ... of $175,000 for the installation of a pneumatic tube system between the Appraisers' offices and the Custom ...

For example, Alfred Ely Beach built a block-long pneumatic transit system in New York City ... But as truck delivery improved, the tubes began to be seen as impractical (as early as 1914, one ...

However, the final decision to send insulin by pneumatic tube should be based on the individual facility as well as any information that your tubing system manufacturer may be able to provide.

But a couple of years later, a national commission praised Chicago’s pneumatic tube system, saying it had improved the efficiency of mail delivery. Similar systems were operating at the time in ...

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Buy this photo. The University of Michigan Hospital will be expanding its pneumatic tube system across its campus after being approved at the Sept. 22 Board of Regents meeting. The project has an ...