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The pneumatic tube's strange 150-year journey

发布时间 2016-04-08 15:18:41    来源

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Tubes have carried cats, mail, and people for a really long time. Vox's Phil Edwards leads the tour... Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more: https://www.facebook.com/philedwardsinc1/ Thanks to Ben FrantzDale, Swisslog, and Renown Health for letting us use their pneumatic tube footage. https://www.flickr.com/photos/benfrantzdale/ http://www.swisslog.com/en https://www.renown.org/ 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. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

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