Pneumatic tube technology involves moving a cylindrical carrier or capsule through a series of tubes with the aid of a blower that pushes or pulls it into motion. For a while, the United States ...

Researchers have identified several high-risk vulnerabilities in a popular model of pneumatic tube systems (PTS) that are used by many hospitals to transport sensitive materials including lab ...

The pneumatic tube system was replaced by radio paging and wireless communication systems beginning in the late 1960s, according to the display. Even those forms of communication have changed.

His pneumatic mail tube, though similarly short-lived, has the distinction of being the U.S.A’s first such system. Beach’s Pneumatic Transit System in 1870 ...

"We still have a bunch of the pneumatic tubes." TD Bank also has drive-thrus at about 75 percent of its branches - which amounts to about 3,000 lanes nationwide, said Judy Schmidt, a spokeswoman.