We still have the remains of one in my office. It doesn't function pneumatically any more - it just drops straight down from the sales room to the finance office on the floor below and we use a cord to pull the capsule back up (so it doesn't count, I know) but it gets a lot of use every day shuttling cash backwards and forwards. But once upon a time it did work, and the capsule is definitely a pneumatic type, with rubber seals and whatnot.
+Connor Higgins Children know of pipes, and of drugs and addiction and pain and reality and a slew of other things that seem stupid to 'hide' when they are in plain sight for all to see all day every day. Also, you have 69 likes on your comment. Wont you please think of the chillun'!
That's just part of the phrase. "But it's only hyperloop that still holds the conviction that the pneumatic tube isn't a pipe-dream." It's as if it were saying, "but it's only a dwindling number of religious fundamentalists who still hold the belief that organisms do not share a common ancestry," and you'd quote, "'organisms do not share a common ancestry,' please, vox, I can't only facepalm so hard."
+MadE I just assumed they didn't pay for royalties to use the 3 second Jetsons clip. Unless there's some copyright thing on using content that's a certain age old. I don't know much about copyrights. I just saw they used The Jetsons so I thought Futurama used it so much more! And is a better show :D
+Brady Wurtz I was assuming that it was because the tubes in Futurama are pneumatic. They are open at both ends which means you can't get that air pressure. In the Jetson's clip he closed a door to make a seal.
What a shame you failed to mention the HISTORY . . . Englishman Josiah Latimer Clark, Engineer (invented/patented the system 1854) constructed the FIRST pneumatic tube system between the General Post Office and Euston Station, London in 1859. I know this information is available if you look for it. I also know that my great grandfather improved the system to make it viable for general use in 1870. Regards, Brian.
I used to be thrilled to see the pneumatic tubes delivering cash and stamps in the local cooperative society department store. It was also the only place I could enjoy a ride in a cage lift operated by a human being, who greeted you with courtesy. It's all gone now. I feel old, but I'm only 45.
I’ve heard about Beach’s pneumatic tube subway the first time... in the animated movie “An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island” (1998). Yes really, it featured a scene of a closed and abandoned pneumatic subway. Anyone else knew that?
I would imagine, it’s a fast way to transfer physical paper. Like a doctors hand signed orders. Sure a nurse or orderly can carry those up 6 flights, or the tube takes it in 5 seconds
at 2:50 when he says there was one mcdonalds with a pneumatic tube to send food, that was in the city I live in (Edina Minnesota). It was in kind of a strip mall area, so there was no room for a drive through on the building, so there was a little booth in the middle of the parking lot where you could take your order and they'd send the food through the tube, no shakes though. It got replaced with a sandwich shop, so i dont care
+magicalwizard99 Oh my goodness I had always wondered how they did that. Seriously everyone. The little hut was no bigger than my bedroom and always baffled me through my childhood how they did it.
that was the best mcdonalds ever. there was the crazy drive-thru, the statue with the moon head playing the piano, and a gamecube with super smash bros in the back. Oh the memories
I miss working in a hospital lab when I see the tubes. The system was constantly broken and cause havoc but it always gave me a little buzz when the pods would shoot up from your hands
Hi, Hyperloop is not a vacuum propulsion system in the same vein as pneumatic mail canisters. The tube is just to reduce air resistance but the vehicle propels itself and the vacuum-pressurized air can flow around the vehicle.
There used to be an in store overhead wire tube transfer at a wards store !! Wish it was used today but don't know what it was called As I was to young !! IT was a small tube on an electric wire type line at wards !!
Hyperloop is a pipedream. To much problems with keeping a vacuum and the length of 5he tubes changing due to temperature. Also the slightest up, down or curve can cause huge problems.
A car dealer I was dispatcher at had a tube system into my office. The writers would put staplers, car parts etc in and boom!!!! Like an m80 going off in a metal box behind me!
The Hyperloop system didn't start out as a scaled up pneumatic tube; it's a scaled down ET3. It was never stated directly (maybe because of their weird business model) but heavily implied in the pdf release
Kind of annoying how you mention Hyperloops but not anything about them. That aside, the content and frequency of such good content on this channel is really refreshing, almost unreal :)
Wow. I've been theorizing a "hyper loop" for about 2 years now, I didn't know it was such a well known idea, I guess great minds think alike. Combining non contact propulsion and levitation is the future of transportation, been saying that for years now. I've already got a blueprint (sort of), now I want to build a small prototype, the hardest part is calibrating the magnets to levitate the cart, very precise job.
