It Really Was a Series of Tubes

In the 1800s cities used pneumatic tubes to transfer physical documents. Of course with the internet we no longer need these long tunnels, but that doesn't mean that they aren't fun to learn about how these old systems are similar to the internet. Molly Wright Steenson gave a great talk about how these systems worked and what was state of the art in the 1800's.
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Why would we not still have something like this for post? parcel's and what have you. be so good to order something online and then be able to go to the closest sorting box and have it instantly.

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