A century ago, futurists predicted that pneumatic tubes would be the transportation systems of tomorrow. That idea never came to fruition – until recently. Stanford University’s medical center uses a ...

Pneumatic tubes were supposed to revolutionize the world but have fallen by the wayside. Except in hospitals. Pneumatic tubes were touted as something that would revolutionize the world. In science ...

Elon Musk is not the first inventor to put his hopes into vacuums. Respect to the Hyperloop, but pneumatic tubes have a centuries-long history -- in both human infrastructure and in the minds of ...

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. You can still see pneumatic tubes at bank drive-thrus and a few other places, but their scope used to be a lot more ambitious than carrying ...