Pneumatic tubes were used to deliver mail!
Pneumatic tubes were used to deliver mail!
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You can read more about the fascinating history here: https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/pneumatic-tubes.pdf
Credit: https://hachyderm.io/@miah
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More steampunk than solarpunk, but yeah always interesting to read some details about complex but mostly forgotten technology.
5 0 ReplyIn the medicine field this technology isn't uncommon because you can send samples quickly to the hospital laboratory.
2 0 ReplyImagine upping the size, running the vacuums on renewables and automating it though. You could distribute farm fresh veggies to the doorstep of everyone in an entire city. I think that'd be solarpunk as hell.
1 0 ReplyWhat about this is "punk"? It's just old technology. I don't see a reason to give everything a "punk" label.
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