Pneumatic Tubes Used at Drive-Through Banks, 1900s Yep, these still exist. Wikimedia Commons. ET3's Elevated Tube, 2000s The closest sibling to Musk's Hyperloop is probably ET3's Elevated Tube.

Pneumatic tubes may seem like wonky and antiquated office tech, more suited to The Hudsucker Proxy than a modern-day health care system. Yet they're surprisingly common.

The New York Post Office was one of many to adopt the pneumatic tube for limited use, as did other cities in the US and Europe. The North Philadelphia system showed off its system by sending a cat ...

The pneumatic tube business isn’t dead yet. Hospitals still use the tubes for moving medicines and samples. But sales are now higher thanks to cannabis dispensaries.

I’ve been thinking about tubes. Specifically, the weird black tubes that you often find stretched across a roadway. What are those tubes for? What are they tracking? How do they work?

For that reason and others that seem lost to history, the pneumatic tubes of New York City's General Post Office, when they launched in 1897, ended up whisking away ... a cat. Yep.

NYC once employed miles of pneumatic tubes to transport mail and other objects throughout the city. Here is what we could dig up about where it all is now. Menu Search. Log in Subscribe.

Pneumatic devices use the power of compressed air (air that has been squashed tightly into a space) to make something move. The compressed air or gas can be used to move motors, cylinders or other ...

Pneumatic actuators can be powerful and fast, making them very useful for all kinds of mechanical jobs. [Michael Rechtin] decided that while he could buy them off-the-shelf, he preferred to see if … ...

The Sawzall name is part of the history of Milwaukee Tools.The name traces its roots back to 1951, when two Milwaukee engineers invented the first Milwaukee Sawzall. Jerome Schnettler and Edward ...

A research team develops 3D-printed pneumatic logic modules that control the movements of soft robots using only air pressure. These modules enable logical switching of the air flow and can thus ...