pneumatic tubes

Once it's swallowed up by a series of pneumatic tubes, the canister embarks on a dark, shadowy journey unseen by…

It's not easy being a migratory fish these days. Not only do you have to deal with natural obstacles like friggin…

It takes work to go upstairs, but it doesn't have to. That's why elevators were invented. If you want an elevator in…

It's Friday! Time to sit back, relax, and enjoy a genuinely satisfying session of Suck the Balls. Designer Niklas Roy

Waiter service too slow for you? How about a pneumatic tube that spits out sliders at 87 MILES PER HOUR? C One…

New Yorkers have a history of experimenting with pneumatic tubes—both for mail delivery (seen above) and public…

The January 18, 1925, Zanesville Times Signal (Zanesville, Ohio) ran an article about a proposed 88 story skyscraper…

A century ago, futurists predicted that pneumatic tubes would be the transportation systems of tomorrow. That idea…

7,000 times a day, the staff at Stanford Hospital launch a sample or some other vital object through their four…

This illustration of international travel in the future, complete with robotic red-cap porters, appeared in the…

Leominster in the Future (postcard circa 1910)

Before the internet, an actual series of tubes really was the best way to transport messages quickly. OObject has…

From his first job at Scientific American circa 1900 to his retirement in 1956 as science editor at the New York…

A few months ago we looked at the first part of fourteen-year-old Arthur Palm's predictions for the year 2001.…

On Monday we looked at the German translation of a piece by John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. for the December 1900 issue of…

In 1900 John Elfreth Watkins, Jr., author of many detective and mystery novels, wrote a piece for the December issue…

I downloaded an episode of the first season of The Jetsons yesterday. It occurred to me that there is nothing more…