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This technology is easiest to witness in person today in modern and big enough hospitals: it's used to transfer tissue specimens, medication etc fast in big fac
by epilys 4y ago
This technology is easiest to witness in person today in modern and big enough hospitals: it's used to transfer tissue specimens, medication etc fast in big facilities. You can hear the "swoosh" sounds when cylinders arrive, it's very cool.
Here's an article about such a system in Stanford Hospital, USA https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2010/01/gone-with-the-wind-tubes-are-whisking-samples-across-hospital.html https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2010/01/gone-with-the...
Some years before COVID, the Chaos Computer Conference had set up a temporary pneumatic post system in the conference building (they might be still doing it but I haven't been). It's fascinatingly retrofuturistic to sit and observe the system traffic.