José Brenes/Daily. Buy this photo. The University of Michigan Hospital will be expanding its pneumatic tube system across its campus after being approved at the Sept. 22 Board of Regents meeting. The ...

Pneumatic tube systems (PTS) have become an integral component of modern hospital infrastructure, enabling the rapid and reliable transport of blood samples from clinical areas to central laboratories ...

Artificial intelligence and video conferencing are tools Mayo Clinic has embraced, but a 75-year-old pneumatic tube system is still using forced air and brass tubes to move 10,000 packages a day. A ...

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Atreo Services, a company that delivers personalized service and support programs for hospitals nationwide that rely on material handling automation, today announces the first ...

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 ...

Security researchers have detailed vulnerabilities in the system controlling the pneumatic tube networks used in thousands of hospitals around the world, which could allow hackers to disrupt the ...

A century ago, futurists predicted that pneumatic tubes would be the transportation systems of tomorrow. That idea never came to fruition – until recently. Stanford University’s medical center uses a ...

A Globe reporter in 1900 asked the city’s top minds what the year 2000 would look like. Some things they got right, others they got wrong. One prediction was that a pneumatic tube system would connect ...

Manhattan has many great qualities, but trash isn’t one of them. Since the island has no space for alleys, trash is piled onto the streets for early-morning pickups by loud garbage trucks making their ...

Pneumatic tube system discovered by an Untapped Cities reader on 86th and Lexington Avenue Untapped Cities Twitter follower, @justinr592, submitted this photograph he snapped of a pneumatic tube ...

Once it’s swallowed up by a series of pneumatic tubes, the canister embarks on a dark, shadowy journey unseen by the human eye. But now we have GoPros, and now we can see exactly what the inside of a ...