Over the past couple of decades, ATMs and online accounts have just about killed the drive-thru window at the bank. That’s been bad for the companies that sell pneumatic tubes — you know, canisters ...
What’s more fun than ordering your next pair of nerd-chic glasses on the Internet? Getting them delivered to you via a magical pneumatic tube, that’s what. Pneumatic tubes, best remembered from 1980s ...
In our "Weekly Innovation" blog series, we explore an interesting idea, design or product that you may not have heard of yet. Do you have an innovation to share? Use this quick form. When Jeff ...
“N.Y. Post Office Pneumatic Tube” c. 1912. Photo via Library of Congress Today, we’ll show you where some remnants of the system are and where pneumatic tubes are still used in the city. Not only is ...
In 1953, NYC retired its pneumatic tube-aided mail system, which stretched 27 miles long and connected 23 post offices. But there are still remnants of the obsolete technology scattered throughout the ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The new freestanding Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital officially opens Saturday, Oct. 5. The state-of-the-art facility has the latest technology to make patient care ...
Elon Musk is not the first inventor to put his hopes into vacuums. Respect to the Hyperloop, but pneumatic tubes have a centuries-long history -- in both human infrastructure and in the minds of ...