#Pneumatic Tubes

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Francis J. Hunter, foreman at the General Post Office, is shown as he puts the first batch of mail in the new pneumatic tube couriers, October 25, 1932. The high-speed couriers traveled up and down the city at a mile a minute, carrying a total of 6,000,000 letters daily.

Photo: Associated Press

[electronictheoristactivist]

[trevlad-sounds]

Invisible Waves 52

29.12.2024

Intro ekin fil – reflection – 00:00 Chapter 1 Pneumatic Tubes – Petit Bleu III – 08:02 Lifting Gear Engineer – Messed – 12:43 Chapter 2 Time Rival – Music for Troubleshooting – 16:21 Madrona Labs Aalto Klevgrand Tines Hydro Fyter – Laden – 22:41 Chapter 3 Mindheal – Loving In The Machine Age – 26:22 Arturia Polybrute Behringer Deepmind 12 Waldorf Kyra Arturia Keylab Arturia SparkLE PreSonus FaderPort 8 RME Babyface Pro FS Audient Eco SP 8 Voyage Futur – Ancient Treescape – 32:37 Chapter 4 Wound – Noctalgia – 37:32

[terebelli]

Pneumatic tubes connecting 23 post offices in New York City. Late 1800’s through 1950’s.

[amycvdh]

“Finishing a post and hitting send, shooting it down a complicated system of pneumatic tubes” via BlueSky

[doctorlavender]

The Border of Hermes | Close to the Sun

[makeitdewey]

624 Civil engineering

where the hell are my pneumatic tubes this is not the future jules verne promised

[apathmakerstale]

We regressed as a culture when pneumatic tubes went out of style and we didn’t iterate on them.

[trevlad-sounds]

Wednesday 20 September Mixtape 374 “Summer Stone”

Experimental Library Instrumental Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays. Support the artists and labels. Don't forget to tip so future shows can bloom.

Secret Circuit-Ripe Ready 00:31

Pneumatic Tubes-Summer's End 04:49

The British Stereo Collective-In the Tall Grass (from The Ghosts of Fleet Forest) (New Mix) 06:29

Pete Jolly-Leaves 07:43

Oscar Rocchi, Franco Godi-Fantastica 09:20

Piet Van Meren-Stoned 11:40

Satoshi & Makoto-Crawl Up 14:06

The Sorcerers-The Horror 16:49

Peel Dream Magazine-You Really Mean It? 20:26

Roedelius-Sonnengeflecht 21:22

Moon Mullins-Over the Marine Parkway Bridge 24:36

Belbury Poly-Earth Lights 28:23

Bravo Tounky-La Bonnette 32:45

Trevor Bastow-Chopping Block 35:28

[l0vegl0wsinthedark]

Solution:

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Baby zoom zoom straight into your lap

I think it would be pretty sick to have pneumatic tubes (like at bank drive thrus) in my house but I can't come up with a single use case for them in a residence. though thinking about it conjured the idea of putting an empty cup from my desk in one to send it to the kitchen sink, where it would be thrown with force and shatter on impact. and that's pretty funny.

[laejoh]

Phones were fixed to individual tables, and above many was a lighted number. Singles needed only to look around the room until a fetching stranger caught their eye, note the number, and then direct a message to that table.

But for those who were too shy to pick up the phone, the pneumatic tubes offered a perfect alternative. The tubes were built into the handrails, and one was located at each table. The nightclub provided paper on which to scrawl notes. Patrons only had to specify where they wanted their missives sent. Like messaging on a dating app, but with—you know—tubes.

Many provocative notes were passed around, but eager flirters needed to be careful—“messages sent by tube [were] checked by female ‘censors’ in the switchboard room” in an early form of comment moderation.

[acmeoop]

Quitting Time “Jane’s Driving Lesson” (1963)

[radarsteddybear]

The fact that LeBeau fits inside a dumbwaiter would suggest that I, too, would fit inside a dumbwaiter. Unfortunately, there aren't enough dumbwaiters in my life for me to test this hypothesis.

[hadleysmis]

OH MY GOD, THE HOSPITAL I'M AT HAS THE PNEUMATIC TUBE MAIL SYSTEM. THAT'S REAL?? I THOUGHT IT WAS A VIDEO GAME INVENTION, I'M SO STUPIDLY UNAWARE OF THE WORLD AHAHHA

[yanklbonkl]

[jayblanc]

Oh, it's worse. They've reinvented a worse version of Pneumatic Tube Delivery. Instead of air pressure pushing around sealed tubes of documents, it's robot trains delivery pastries and pizzas. What happens when one gets stuck?

There's a reason sending things down long sealed tubes to people did not end up being how Pizza delivery works. When your pizza gets stuck in a tube for a week, the smell distributes around the network. And even if you never get any food stuck, eventually you end up with the tubes turning from a food delivery system, into a cockroach delivery system.

This is why the only remaining Pneumatic Tube network is the one on Roosevelt Island that exists solely to send bags of trash to the trash barges.

are the tech bros doing ok? i feel like we've gone all year without them reinventing the train even once