I’m often asked what my favorite weird/obscure fact about New York City was. Ironically, as the founder of Untapped New York, this question frequently proves difficult because there are just so many ...
The inaugural episode of The Untapped New York Podcast was a dive into my favorite subject of all time: New York City’s pneumatic tube mail system. One of the highlights of this exploration was ...
When New York launched its pneumatic-tube mail system in the fall of 1897, postal workers tested it out by sending canisters loaded with a Bible wrapped in an American flag, an artificial peach, a ...
Contents fragile! That white thing getting ready to be whisked away in a tube is, indeed, a cat. (Wikimedia Commons) New Yorkers of the Gilded Age knew an exciting technology when they saw one. And, ...
Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Before the Hyperloop, before email, even before mail trucks, ...
Powered by compressed air, the system transported millions of letters between 1897 and 1953 Vanessa Armstrong - History Correspondent A pneumatic mail tube at the main Post Office Department branch in ...
Special to The New York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...
Long before digital messages, New York relied on a web of pneumatic tubes to move mail at incredible speeds. This video dives into the system’s rise, usefulness, and eventual disappearance. Hypnotic ...
Whenever Elon Musk hypes up his Hyperloop idea—a conceptual transportation system that will whisk passengers to their destinations at speeds up to 700 miles per hour—he makes it sound like the most ...
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