There was a time when Chicagoans imagined a future filled with pneumatic tubes. Using the power of suction, these miraculous devices were going to transport mail—and even people—around the city and ...

Imagine, if you will, a secret community dwelling beneath the streets of New York City, its inhabitants never allowed to travel to the surface or to interact in any way with the dreaded “Topsiders.” ...

Unique ways of shipping have popped up throughout history, each designed to create speedy and convenient ways of delivering goods and mail. One of the most interesting appeared in New York City more ...

Today, if you can find a pneumatic tube system at all, it is likely at a bank drive-through. A conversation in the Hackaday bunker revealed something a bit surprising. Apparently, in some parts of the ...

José Brenes/Daily. Buy this photo. The University of Michigan Hospital will be expanding its pneumatic tube system across its campus after being approved at the Sept. 22 Board of Regents meeting. The ...

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 ...