Can't get enough of rörpost

28 Dec 2009 | Kommentarer ()

Vad hände? Av alla intressanta saker man skulle kunna skriva om, så väljer jag att lyfta fram gångna tiders kommunikationssystem. Här är i alla fall lite information om rörpostsystemet på New York Public Library, från Atlas Obscura - "a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica":

But there is one, wonderful New York location, where the pneumatic tubes have proven quicker and more nimble then their modern day electronic substitutes; the stacks of the NY Humanities and Social Sciences library. When one hands their paper slip to the librarian, they slip it into a small pneumatic tube and send it flying down past seven floors of books deep underground. The request is received, the book located, and it is sent up on an ever turning oval ferris wheel of books.
So successful is the old pneumatic system in the NY Humanities and Social Sciences library that they installed a new system in the Science, Industry and Business Library on Madison Avenue in 1998.
Interestingly, the disused NY pneumatic tubes may end up serving a purpose once again, one remarkably similar to what they once did, carrying information. Randolph Stark, an entrepreneur, plans to run fiber optic cables though them."If even a small amount of these tubes still exist, it's a pretty valuable piece of property," he said.

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