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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past couple of decades, ATMs and online accounts have just about killed the drive-thru window at the bank. That’s been bad for the companies that sell pneumatic tubes — you know, canisters ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook José Brenes/Daily. Buy this photo. The University of Michigan Hospital will be expanding its ...