Pneumatic tubes were supposed to revolutionize the world but have fallen by the wayside. Except in hospitals. Pneumatic tubes were touted as something that would revolutionize the world. In science ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence and video conferencing are tools Mayo Clinic has embraced, but a 75-year-old pneumatic tube system is still using forced air and brass tubes to move 10,000 packages a day. A ...

Earlier this month, we found an NYC coffee shop designed to sort, roast, and transport its coffee beans around the store through the use of vacuum-aided pneumatic tubes. Almost two years ago, we found ...

It's all too common to find hackable flaws in medical devices, from mammography machines and CT scanners to pacemakers and insulin pumps. But it turns out that the potential exposure extends into the ...

We recently took a rare tour of the New York Stock Exchange building and its expansive archive collection. One of the cool things we learned while we were there was how traders communicated with each ...

A Globe reporter in 1900 asked the city’s top minds what the year 2000 would look like. Some things they got right, others they got wrong. One prediction was that a pneumatic tube system would connect ...

NORFOLK, Va. — A new pneumatic tube system at Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk is reshaping how medical specimens and clinical documents travel throughout the facility, cutting transport times from ...

Powered by compressed air, the system transported millions of letters between 1897 and 1953 Vanessa Armstrong - History Correspondent A pneumatic mail tube at the main Post Office Department branch in ...

Click to open image viewer. Used in the late 1940s and early 1950s to transport mail through New York City's pneumatic tube system, this canister could carry as many as six hundred letters and travel ...