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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.
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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.
Wish there were more of these still
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.
The elevator tubes on the Jetson’s were probably based on these.
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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