I was reading A Coffin for Dimitrios (great book), and found a character saying “send me a pneumatique when you get to Paris.” And in fact, there was a series of pneumatic tubes to speed the mail in Paris for over 100 years. Thought it was cool. Here’s the wiki as well.
A letter from The Central Bureaucracy.
“Attention, Hermes Conrad”
“You are about to receive a letter from The Central Bureaucracy.”
My God!
It’s from The Central Bureaucracy!
Some of those systems are still around. For example, Roosevelt Island in NYC has a pneumatic trash collection system. Apparently it’s the only part of NYC that doesn’t have trash piling up on the streets/sidewalks all the time.
We have had those in parts of Sweden for a long time.
Apparently they were invented in Sweden in the 1960s
But most of Sweden doesn’t have those and we never have trash bags or something on the streets.
This is so steampunk I love it
The technology is still in use today and new systems are built, e.g. for moving around kab samples in large hospitals or industrial sites. Pretty hard to email those.
Probably shut down when someone shit in it
now this is shitposting
Prague still has one although it’s not in use any more
THUMP
Whose the US asshole that sent a cat
In the early 1900s, you could send pretty much whatever could fit in a standard cylinder. Theatre tickets, bills, postcards, novels and cats (yes, this did happen in New York’s pneumatic post) all whizzed around underground and reached their recipient in just an hour.
Name and shame
Cat tax had a little different meaning back then…
Prague did until 2002
Ah, a picture of the internet pipes…
Was an interesting read, things like that just seem so cool
