I'm old enough to remember the fairly often use of Pneumatic Tube Systems. I was a kid. When we took a trip to Kansas City they were installed in Department Stores and some office buildings. It was fascinating to watch the system work. In one of those buildings, there was a balcony where you could look down and watch those little containers being whisked along to their destination. As I recall, there was a transfer station where the operator would take the container and transfer it to a different tube in order for it to arrive at its destination,. As I remember, these systems were used primarily for order submissions to the warehouse and sales tickets to accounting. ?Someone showed me how it all worked. As a small, country boy, I was mesmerized. I also remember these devices in the large stores in downtown Detroit. As well as Pennys, Sears, and Wards. (As an aside, there was another system in place either before the pneumatic tubes or at the same time: it operated with wires and pullies. I watched as the clerk would clip something on a device that would take it to it;'s destination. If you looked up you could all the little pieces of paper traveling along. Looked like someone's laundry, but moving.)
These things are way cool. So old school yet futuristic. I can imagine a futuristic world where these are used to transport food (among other things). Dial up the pizza place on your video phone and they send you a dehydrated pizza via pneumatic tube. You then stick the pizza in your voice operated black and decker rehydrator and presto. "Hydrate level 4 please". Future Y U NO here yet?
+purplemutantas That would be the equivalent of the hyperloop transport system. It's not a bad idea to make a tube network system based on groceries and other order delivery, but the cost alone to install this for every house, appartement buildings is very expensive, but it would most definitely prove to be a very economically cost beneficial for the consumers and the suppliers in the long term.. But the size of the goods should also be limited, imagine a big TV delivered trough these tube systems?, which will likely never happen.
Because it can only transport small and light-weight items, and is very expensive to build and maintain. These systems are indispensable for large mega-hospitals to get tissue samples and meds from point A to point B within seconds when a life is on the line, but are impractical for general public use to ship a new big screen TV from Wal-Mart to your house, bleh.
It wil eventually happen that groceries and online ordered good can be delivered by a Advanced Tube delivery System as well. There's 1 company in the UK thinking about Grocery Tube Delivery, they're called Ocado, a big supplier of grocery in the UK apparently..
Probably to in my humble opinion to make decentralized stations for grocery goods. Like how grocery stores.. Who knows, some countries actually consider this if i say it myself.
the last time I saw one being used was in Aflkek movie about the American hostages in Iran set in the seventies. last time I saw one being used in actuality...the seventies at Moutain Bell in Denver. and even then it didn't seem to get a lot of use.
I have a plan too make a tinyhouse complex of 300 people i like too juse this i idea too get it from a supermarkt and later by the farmer too reduce plastic production
I'm old enough to remember the fairly often use of Pneumatic Tube Systems. I was a kid. When we took a trip to Kansas City they were installed in Department Stores and some office buildings. It was fascinating to watch the system work. In one of those buildings, there was a balcony where you could look down and watch those little containers being whisked along to their destination. As I recall, there was a transfer station where the operator would take the container and transfer it to a different tube in order for it to arrive at its destination,. As I remember, these systems were used primarily for order submissions to the warehouse and sales tickets to accounting. ?Someone showed me how it all worked. As a small, country boy, I was mesmerized. I also remember these devices in the large stores in downtown Detroit. As well as Pennys, Sears, and Wards. (As an aside, there was another system in place either before the pneumatic tubes or at the same time: it operated with wires and pullies. I watched as the clerk would clip something on a device that would take it to it;'s destination. If you looked up you could all the little pieces of paper traveling along. Looked like someone's laundry, but moving.)
Gosh, we used these back in the mid 1980s at my first job at Barclays Bank! I didn't think that these still existed.
These things are way cool. So old school yet futuristic. I can imagine a futuristic world where these are used to transport food (among other things). Dial up the pizza place on your video phone and they send you a dehydrated pizza via pneumatic tube. You then stick the pizza in your voice operated black and decker rehydrator and presto. "Hydrate level 4 please".
Future Y U NO here yet?
+purplemutantas That would be the equivalent of the hyperloop transport system.
It's not a bad idea to make a tube network system based on groceries and other order delivery, but the cost alone to install this for every house, appartement buildings is very expensive, but it would most definitely prove to be a very economically cost beneficial for the consumers and the suppliers in the long term..
But the size of the goods should also be limited, imagine a big TV delivered trough these tube systems?, which will likely never happen.
Drones are better and they're already here
I think they are dead
@@LucyPeronot here yet…
Because it can only transport small and light-weight items, and is very expensive to build and maintain. These systems are indispensable for large mega-hospitals to get tissue samples and meds from point A to point B within seconds when a life is on the line, but are impractical for general public use to ship a new big screen TV from Wal-Mart to your house, bleh.
What brand is this? We have one at the hospital I work at and we are curious on how much it cost
Thanks, this helped a lot with my system decomposition assignment.
Really?
Very interesting. I didn't know that such systems are still build.
We still use these at hospitals
always remember stay true to the track and never hold it back
Works just like small data networks!! Physical switch hierarchy! :D
It wil eventually happen that groceries and online ordered good can be delivered by a Advanced Tube delivery System as well.
There's 1 company in the UK thinking about Grocery Tube Delivery, they're called Ocado, a big supplier of grocery in the UK apparently..
Do you think it is possible to deliver items all over the city using this system?
Pretty sure that drones are a cheaper method.
Drone delivery is in its infant stages, and regulation and drone safety is still an issue.
Probably to in my humble opinion to make decentralized stations for grocery goods.
Like how grocery stores..
Who knows, some countries actually consider this if i say it myself.
I'm from the future. They are doing trial runs with the new drome systems they have now. It looks promising.
the last time I saw one being used was in Aflkek movie about the American hostages in Iran set in the seventies. last time I saw one being used in actuality...the seventies at Moutain Bell in Denver. and even then it didn't seem to get a lot of use.
Used every day at the bank Tex!!
Sent spot on my birthday.
Still the fastest way to send small parcels.
Can you explain
@@thokalathomas256 Well the alternative is to walk from your location to another in the building.
ah yes.. good old tube systems. I service these as well.
What if this was used for package delivery? Or a new way of travel?
I wonder how much it cost to install & upkeep
They should make this for people like in Futurama
How does the system know where an item is supposed to go?
You punch in a number for another station. Then the transfer stations know the carrier coming from Station 1 is going to Station 5.
I really need some information on how to understand the software I’m 59 years old. I just don’t pick it up that fast.
How did i get here?
These are used at most credit unions and banks 🏦. In Utah.
I would like to buy a manual on the software
That’s one dream for more than a century ago.
Just like Grim Fandango!
It is available in Indore cities vishesh hospital 🏥💊
Looks like a SWISSLOG System to me. Just like the ones I service.
Reminds me of futurama
ITS THE INTERNET
I have a plan too make a tinyhouse complex of 300 people i like too juse this i idea too get it from a supermarkt and later by the farmer too reduce plastic production
totally tubular
Who is here after watching The Blacklist episode?
wow
WHY ISN'T THIS THE WAY WE DELIVER EVERYTHING????
New York has an underground pneumatic tube system that was operational until the 50s. The people who operated the system were called Rocketeers.
I don't know why but this video reminds me the tv show lost. #dharmainitiative
+Mahmut K Also this video has porn music.
The blacklist
Aperture Science
I knew someone would say that
I guess Richard Branson also saw this video
Low pipping.
Looks like a microwave input pad.
i was looking forward to using these when I became an adult, alas they became OBSOLETE. 😔
... and then email came along and ruined all the fun for everybody
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Beware the beavers!!!!
Who came from black list give me like
I see they stole the idea from Elon Musk's hyperloop. /s