The pneumatic tube's strange 150-year journey
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- Опубликовано: 7 апр 2016
- Tubes have carried cats, mail, and people for a really long time. Vox's Phil Edwards leads the tour...
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More than a century and a half before Elon Musk thought up the Hyperloop, his mash-up of pneumatic and maglev ideas (and a bunch of other moving parts), people were using pneumatic tubes to move people. Though we're familiar with pneumatic tubes from banks, they've been around much longer and used for a lot more.
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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.
That's hilarious
Vox does the most random videos.
+Croatoan
Because... SCIENCE!!!
( I hope you get the reference, if you don't then just ignore this.)
+Harvey Rabbit
Does science have any practical value though?
+Croatoan This is actually news related. Tesla is in the process of investing in hyper-loop capabilities.
Hence the reason I can't stop watching! Best RUclips channel thus far!
"The pneumatic tube isn't a pipe dream."
I can only facepalm so hard Vox. Please, for the children.
+Connor Higgins Vox-Pun
+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'!
People really get offended so easily these days... wonder how they grew up.
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."
Please Vox, make more videos like this!
I cannot imagine what the cat was thinking.
+Brainstorm4300
"If this works out, it will revolutionize transportation"
- cat
meeeoooowwwwwwwwwwwaaaaagahhhhhhhhhh hisssssssssssssssssssss rowwwwwwwwwwwwww hisssssss
MEOW
Call peta
Tubes and cats, isn't this just the internet?
Lame
its a series of tubes
How you didn't use any clips from Futurama is beyond me!
+Brady Wurtz copyrights?
+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
***** Haha, yeah well I don't know anything about copyrights OR either of the shows, so ...
+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.
+Brady Wurtz yaaassss
I wish pneumatic tubes are were used to order something online
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.
That is supercool! Thanks for sharing!
Finally, a series of tubes
+Pizza Problems I KNEW IT!
This is how RUclips works.
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?
Our hospitals in NZ still use them, even in the new buildings!
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
This channel is amazing!
A cat was sent through a tube!? That must’ve been horrifying to the cat.
So cool, thanks for the lesson!
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.
That kid did not look happy to be in the tube.
I'd have loved a go, he was probably just getting impatient.
1:09 And, now I've got Elton John singing in my head.
Our local Costco has a pneumatic tube system within the building connecting the cash registers to the office.
thanks phil
this guy and joss make the BEST videos on the channel bar none
brilliant vid !! TQ so much! :)
This is really interesting. Good video Vox
“they sent lots of packages…including cats”
…i’m sorry, what? 🤣
If only we had these like in Futurama
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 !!
Interesting video, thanks!
Tubes internet - when you send whole cat instead of picture.
Quality content.
+Zach Couch
At an affordable price.
1:22 I thought you said, "...in parrots, frogs and Philadelphia." LOL
We hope for pneumatic tubes, instead, we got youtube.
Amazing 🤩
lol we have this in the hospital where I work
we use them to send blood and other samples to the microbiology/hematology labs etc.
New, New York here I come!!
Who just spent the whole time through this thinking about watching Terry Gilliam's Brazil?
The Word pipedream had to find its way in here! :)
Why leave stuff out? Make the videos longer...
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
From now on it's tube or nothing. How can you not trust something with zero goldfish fatalities
History repeats itself
Haha, not that kind of fan, but radially centrifugal fans instead, as used in vacuum cleaners.
As a kid it was the biggest deal going to the bank & getting to send the tube in the drive thru!🤟👀
i wonder if any of the old stations are sill around? like there should be one under 1st Avenue
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.
Memory hole☮️
I don't get why the tone of this video is so sad?? I thought he was going to say people died in the tubes or something
It's sad because people gave up on such an awesome technology
also did you start off with the line "the pneumatic tube wasnt a pipe dream" and work backwards from there?
3:05 six years later now we know. It’s a pipe dream.
I was reading 1984 and it was the first time I heard about a pneumatic tube is and this vid shows up
1:22 only places that start with P though
Where is Thunderf00t when you need him?
The pun game is strong
Storm and silence
cats are a bigger part of human society though
God, Aldous Huxley loved this word.
That's it! I'm starting a band called Bullet Trains For Hamsters.
please name of the soundtrack at 2:15?
cool vid
there are more in Aperture science
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 :)
Costco uses a bunch of these
where the hell is the Futurama reference in this video?!
What's with the snow effect?
Futurama?
Imagine the expression of Edward Bellamy watching this video
Futurama
Pneumatic tube, eh? Wasn't that the train Colin Firth road going to Kingsman Secret a Service?
That poor cat
If there is no air in the tube, then how does the fan change air pressure? There's no air inside of the tube to the change the pressure of..
Cactuscobbler usually there is air in front of or behind the capsule. If you look closely at the McDonald's clip, you can see that there is air behind the capsule.
The sub-rosa subway
Hyperloop is a Korean invention(patent application in 2008).
Songs?
Hold up, Canada is 150 years old, and there are 150 comments... Wait I just broke that
Mankind dream for almost 200 years...
+P〈Ç〉r@zy TU BE IN A TUBE?
I remember a scene from Batman Forever in which Bruce Wayne had to rocket back to the batcave to change when Two-face crashed a party
music?
Space elevator??
What the hell is this, some kind of tube?
buuuut why didn't you talk about the hyper loop after you did all that intro work?
They actually use this system in US border crossings a lot for sending in passports. Surprised they didn't mention that.
This just reminds me of when hitchcock got his arm stuck in a pneumatic tube
were you guys listen to 99%invisible? or something?
"Ooo a disease? A tube? This shit sounds kinky. Meh." *Clicks* "THIS AIN'T NO KINKY DISEASE!?"
My sad reaction...
3:06 Is this an intentional pun?
including cats
Futurama doesn't seem very futuristic now.
Just don't go too new Yorks pneumatic railway, it's a bit gooey down there
No wonder Mr. Ambrose bought this.
Amna Umar post storm and silence effect😂😂😂😂😂... Mr. Ambrose was quite an advance man compared to his time
Why does Vox make such short videos? The last few seconds of this one: I didn't add this this and this, and a chicken in Philadelphia and this.
Why so hurried?
And that's why you are at the bottom of comment section
For people with short attention span
...and now we have you tube
Anyone trying to shove me into a tube is going to get a punch in the mouth.
Before tubes you had to flip a coin at a nearby urchin and maybe get your shoes shined while you waited for reply.
the grandmother of youtube?!?...
The hyperloop like its concept and ancestors is impractical at best and dangerous at worst
Think concord but considerably less useable
Why? It's just an alternative way to propel a carriage.
Futurama.