How Do Pneumatic Tubes Work?

[@thissingularlife]

I’m here seven years after you posted this to tell you that pneumatic tubes are rad af, and definitely need to come back. Tube go fwwwpt!

[@Mossy-Kat]

If I ever own a business, I'm putting in a pneumatic system. It's happening.

[@Calikush421]

did you ever do what you said you would yet ?

[@mediaquadmarketing]

That's so 1850's Great Britain, lol. Drones with set flight paths might be a better option these days. We just need a complete map of the sky and to make altitude assignments for each flying craft size. There will also need to be launch and land areas at designated spots everywhere air crafts fly. These designated areas of air space would be a lot like up and down escalators or elevators in the sky.

[@pannik_lucas]

@@mediaquadmarketing How would that be cheaper on the long run tho?

[@mackinaw748]

Same

[@MK-of7qw]

It would probably be slightly better... But tubes just look more awesome

[@jamesr.waters6848]

I want pneumatic tubes in my house

[@BrainStuffShow]

+James Waters That would be the best/noisiest upgrade. ^__^

[@jamesr.waters6848]

thanks but I'm too yung and I don't have the stuff. and you are able to make a room semi seprate from your house to make it kinda quieter

[@Mossy-Kat]

+James Waters Me too!

[@russellhackworth5226]

I think one to deliver the mail from the mailbox to the house would be cool.

[@FedJimSmith]

I, also, is it expensive?

[@AGamersWorld1993]

They should totally bring it back. The system in itself seems so cool.

[@MediaManKC]

I'm using pneumatic tubes for a science project and this video helped me a lot in the designing of the project. Thx guys

[@longhairbear]

I think it would be very cool to deliver mail that way. In the town I grew up in the local jewelry store, a huge 3 story building, had a system dating back decades. They used it to retrieve watches that had been fixed, or items from the store rooms. Once I was sent to the store to pick up my mom's watch. I gave the receipt to the sales girl, and she put it through the tube. In a few minutes the watch came back through the tube in a box in the canister. I can still recall the sound it made as something was sent, and arrived.

[@Fwyd]

Grand Rapids!

[@24pavlo]

2:05 it's not about density, It's all about pressure! You can cool the air on one side making it denser but if the pressure stays the same the canister will not move.

[@alienmoondudes8071]

I remember in banks these were used. It made the bank so cool

[@Charles-ig6fr]

"And in other news tonight, FEMA has been mobilized after a heavily populated region of Brooklyn has sunk into the ground. Experts blame the enormous sinkhole on Amazon's ambitious plan to connect every household in America to one of their distribution centers using pneumatic tubes. 'There's just more tubes than ground under there,' said one emergency worker. "'We should have stuck with drones,' said one Amazon employee on condition of anonymity."

[@EarlShacks-vk1re]

I'm designing my own house of which I want to integrate into the design a pneumatic tube system for the trash and the laundry. After watching this video I'm curious as to if on a smaller scale you could replace the fan with a diaphragm of sorts or even a plunger weight hour glass design of a wider diameter in order to gear the displacement of air to accommodate for distance. Sorta thinking it up as I go. Lol. Long story are there any particular fashions you might see fit available in your areas of expertise? No homo

[@aterack833]

I’m working on designing a prototype city, and two considerations currently are a monorail in a tube with carts or some method of pneumatic tube, that’s the whole reason I came here, so technically I guess I may think it’s time for a pneumatic tube revival, but I’m not sure I like the idea of not being able to branch connections, having roughly 10 tubes per city block would quickly add up, even if small. Btw the main reason for such extravagancies is the city design is based around not letting cars (or trucks and such) into the city itself, as they are dangerous and take space best suited to other things, space that ironically makes travel further.

[@sumfacts]

Same !!!!!! I have had this idea floating around for a long time and just scribbled away . I live in a landlocked country and I think this can be very practical.I would love to share some ideas with you .

[@Ice_Karma]

It'd be cool, but I'm not sure they'd be all that useful nowadays. Historic pneumatic tube systems came in a wide variety of sizes, to transport everything from lettermail to passengers, but modern ones seem to be sized exclusively for lettermail or items of a similar size. This is unfortunate, as postal mail is shifting from lettermail to parcels.

[@haiggoh]

they should have never stopped using it. that must have been so much faster than snail mail is today

[@Dojan5]

haiggoh I don't think the tubes can branch though. If one post office caters to say, 10000 households, they'd need 10000 different tubes. That's a lot of tubes. That said, you could probably overcome that issue fairly easily.

[@haiggoh]

Dojan5 you could. Basically it is like train rails. You can only use one path at a time but you could build a system that changes via switches so you could branch out after all

[@johnmichaelberlin6024]

haiggoh and specialy how to pu in the tubes underground if its in the train tunnels they still make hole to the homes that waiting for there mail

[@haiggoh]

but they already had tubes before WW2, it's not like it's impossible. Think about water pipes and electricity, same thing

[@StolenPopcatBen]

Quick question could I add pressure to the other side of the capsule

[@morg52]

I always thought that something like this would make a great amusement park ride. :)

[@alexthephotographer9314]

I want one of those so bad. Where can you find those for purchase??

[@MrPhenixStudio]

Pneumatic mail tube revival FTW !!! I hope we can make it really efficient so that it can rivalise with other trnaporting methodes, it's also the idea after the Hyper Loop !

[@flako9571]

YES!! It would be so cool to have one in your home.

[@nidhal7184]

Great vedio,,, Can we use it for industrial application?

[@Manny_1230]

[bank drive-thru window] Me: [in italian] I'd a Iike-a to make-a da deposit Bank Teller: HEY BUDDY I REMEMBER Me: [frantically pouring marinara sauce

[@fauxpas1650]

I'm only watching this because I was curious on what were those pipes in that scene Brooklyn Nine Nine season 3 ep8 where Hitchcock's arm got stuck hahaha

[@Tumbledweeb]

I'm watching this because of the video game "Control", in which The Federal Bureau of Control has a MASSIVE PTT system used for in-house communications at the Oldest House.

[@STEVENMASSO]

This explanation, as well as your other explanations of everything are too simplistic. I want more information!

[@TheLysander316]

I'm all for a pneumatic air tube revival...I've even seen the World's Fair exhibit that had a PNEUMATIC TRAIN!!! Seriously awesome!

[@Dirtboxhor]

I saw something a while ago about space mail. Similar to this but it travels by gps through the stratosphere. For example, if you order something from Amazon. com, it could be at your door within an hour instead of days.

[@ethanpfleger8121]

Can you imagine passengers riding in canisters in pneumatic tubes that big?

[@christopherwall2121]

Oh shit, Futurama real?!

[@bradenmoon4748]

How dose it make the turn at the bends with out getting stuck or loosing suction"

[@smh9902]

Rubber skirts are flexible.

[@AAAyyyGGG]

The bends are much more gentle than shown in the animation, so there's only a very small gap between the skirt on the carrier and the tube wall.

[@virotutis]

Are there really drive through banks and pharmacies in america?? That's crazy

[@TryAgainPlease]

3 year late to your question, but yes. We have drive through everything. Even liquor stores, marijuana stores, etc.

[@Greggee100]

I remember going to a store in the bronx, Corners to buy video games. They used air-tubes to transport video game to front of the store all aboard! ;o)

[@Kneedragon1962]

What this (very good) clip doesn't convey, is how common & ubiquitous this stuff was. I'm old, child of '62. In the late '60s I lived in a very small & backward country town called Kempsey, in northern NSW, Australia. They didn't have a town wide delivery system, but the bank had one, the local supermarket had one, and I think a couple of the office buildings had them. It was about as common as a switchboard / internal phone system, PABX. Much of the time, it performed the same job as an internal phone system, with the advantage that you could scribble a note, ('Is this cheque to be accepted?') and send the note and the cheque...

[@camcorder8387]

i'm gonna pour marinara sauce in a bank's pneumatic tube

[@mtmas1]

ok, i want to know what's your references(not in this video but in all videos) and the website(science) and who speak to us?

[@BrainStuffShow]

majdi A.S Not sure what you're asking for, but we try to list our reference sources in the details section of every video. For this one they were: lapsedhistorian.com/get-blower-londons-forgotten-pneumatic-messaging-tubes/ med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2010/01/gone-with-the-wind-tubes-are-whisking-samples-across-hospital.html#.html electronics.howstuffworks.com/everyday-tech/pneumatic-tubes.htm/printable home.howstuffworks.com/vacuum-cleaner.htm

[@lavenderoh]

I worked in a hospital with these that connected from the med rooms to the pharmacy. It was fucking amazing.

[@ryanprairie1516]

Yes with a powerful computer and an more powerful computer program we could have a complex system to the local mailbox or straight to our houses. It would take a lot of work and power to do but it would be worth it in the long run.

[@melvinbowen2nd]

Place pneumatic tubes inside of the mailbox and connect it to your house!

[@johnwolf7073]

this is awesome ! how isnt this everywhere !!???!!

[@robertquinlan9297]

Subway pods that carry passengers through tubes cross country, what fun that would be, using jet turbo fans engines to push you through.

[@Pluckio]

Instead of this or even having mail delivery service, people should have to pick up their own mail, when notified by the Postal Service; "You've got mail!" It would eliminate mail cars, postal delivery workers, eliminate the gasoline they use, the cost of their uniforms and bags, lower the budget for the U.S.P.S. and lower our taxes. It might even give the government and incentive to have companies cut down on garbage mail since all mail would have to sit waiting in storage units for each house until we picked up our mail. Sorta like P.O. Boxes, but as mail boxes instead. Housing communities helped by grouping mail boxes in one place, like apartment complexes do, which makes it easier and quicker for the postal delivery worker, but it still costs money. The internet has greatly reduced the need for the U.S.P.S., but it' might never eliminate it. But pneumatic tubes might be helpful in the post office since they'd have to be bigger buildings! HOLY CRAP, I just realized the last comment for this vid was 6 years ago and this vid is from 2015! I guess, I'm 8 years too late.

[@patrickwachisto]

It's the high time for a pneumatic mail revival

[@gavinandaudreevlogs7364]

How does it turn?

[@1Weemaryanne]

Banks and other offices in Canada stopped using this system in the late 1980s, because sometimes the capsules got stuck in the tubes and naturally, the one that got stuck or misdirected was the one that was too valuable to lose. I worked in one of the last banks to use the system.

[@Lerkero]

Nice explanation. I have only seen a few of these outside of banks.

[@Quethel]

Lerkero There's a restaurant called the C1 Cafe that sends orders to your table with these. Not sure how I feel about that, hah.

[@freckledtrout3299]

I would love to have a pneumatic tubes beer delivery system in my house.

[@topazz2626]

Me too👍🏾

[@TheWarwolf102]

To conserve broadband and be totally screwed in the event of an EMP, I say we should.

[@colef2345]

They should make more of those

[@davesnowjonesboro]

Something I've always wondered... When I'm in the shower and someone flushes a toilet, why does the water in the shower suddenly turn COLD? Shouldn't it get hotter since the toilet uses cold water?

[@BrainStuffShow]

davesnowjonesboro That's a good question! I think we have this on the big BrainStuff list already, but I'll double-check.

[@chrismills9620]

I would have to say 'weeeeeeee' everytime I sent a canister

[@jenniferwolfe4446]

Damn skippy it should come back. In fact why did it ever leave? I'm going to work on developing one from my fridge to my couch. This could be my cash cow!

[@howmason5522]

I already have an idea for the pneumatic mail tube revival. What I don't have is an investor and workshop.

[@LeonardGreenpaw]

yes yes yes, bring it back, amazon would love it for their small products

[@tls5870]

There is actually a parallel universe where Amazon got started in the 1890's delivering parcels via 14" diameter pneumatic tubes that can handle 22" long pods. Over there everyone now has a tube going to their house connected to an intricate electronically controlled logistics system and a package can be sent from a home in NYC to a home in LA in 12 hours or less.

[@dementedvinny2451]

7.2 hours give or take if we're talking about the 1960s project that could deliver people and since we're talking about a package I would say even faster since less weight unless you're delivering a car. 388mph/2797 Miles = 7.2 hours. I guess maybe less than an hour for a shoebox-sized package. I could be wrong since its a parallel universe.

[@JacopoMTK]

I had no idea that this system was so diffused at the time oO

[@DomyTheMad420]

Seamus Newt i'm waiting for that day. omg.

[@jeremiahbaker6396]

"..into your face" 😂 this is all sounding like omashu from avatar . nice video

[@vcokltfre]

They should bring it back!!!!!!!

[@edgar1557]

Omg I’m gonna do this tomorrow my first time!

[@gidgetgroendyk7824]

What if you used this in auto motive application to give documents to authority’s to give documents and speak to them with intercom. Or getting fast food

[@Mallory-Malkovich]

Why don't we have pneumatic tube trains? Is it a size thing?

[@abc140290]

Huh. I always thought these things were science fiction.

[@raylouis]

Yes. When I was a Teenager, (HAD A FULL TIME JOB) A Friend and I found an office that was vacant. In this office was a Pneumatic tube and carrier. He put a Dead Mouse in the tube and hit send. Didn't hear anything about the PRANK. About a Month later, Rumors said MOUSE ended up in C.E.O. of Company (FUNNY STORY)

[@valdez380]

Has anyone farted in the thing that you put back in the tube? 😂

[@Tumbledweeb]

I just made a post about that exact thing! Imagine: Fartmail - Airmail Redefined!

[@lindsaypaige4075]

Am I the only 1 that thought these things were funny as a kid. I use to laugh at how these would shoot up in the pipe when I went to the bank with my parents.

[@FriendlyOne_]

This is very interesting

[@mgross144]

I want to set up pneumatic tube from my kitchen sink out to my compost barrel. So I can easily get vegetable waste transported easily to composted.

[@thecatchannel852]

yes...the fear of covid makes us want this. Supermaket and pharmacy to your house.

[@akuali7388]

How much it cost????????Need answer ASAP,help!!!!

[@fasuly07alzahrani]

we use it to transport 600 tons of trash underground the city then push it to 7 km out city by 35 km of tubes and the houspitals use it to transport unstraile tools and you can see it in ER

[@woodyahh2110]

Where was this being done are the tunnels still in place

[@cassieclay-smith5621]

I remember these at Costco!

[@wzwguitar]

Cool video! Could you do one on vacuumed power tubes? Like in guitar Amps and old radios.

[@BrainStuffShow]

wesley .walcott I will definitely add that to our big list! I've been wanting to do a whole channel on the science/tech behind analog amplifiers and pedal effects. - Christian

[@hsarhsaw2240]

Like is the tube flexible

[@LemonLime48.]

Well it would be easy but it could cost a lot of money. And email is free but can be a pain. Also the piplines and stuff would be cool but where would we put it? Underground or above land. (Btw the underground would mean that you would have to ding up miles of land and who wants that job)

[@horailfan489]

I really like the video

[@belindawoodson8981]

The one thing about using the pneumatic if you have more than 3 people in the car you can only do 3 different transaction.

[@drinxs505]

My answer to the question at the end..the way the world is going,YES!

[@2ezoutdoors348]

seen my buddy get bitched out by some chick at the bank after he filled one with penny and quarter rolls and sent it in lol.

[@EBProductions]

why don't we have this. like press a button and have your shit send to you in seconds

[@vReidyyy]

Make Pneumatic Tubes Great Again

[@yiman7370]

So it's basically a large vaccum like a vacuum cleaner

[@ПашаМоторный]

I make this system in my house ! GREAT!!!

[@iamsavannahb2247]

i find this so cool

[@leeadickes7235]

Jetsons and Futurama had human sized ones.

[@alexmckinley79]

I'm surprised Elon Musk hasn't started pneumatic tube highways for cars yet.

[@Neceros]

I see somebody has been watching Person of Interest.

[@supaskier6295]

Can I send a bunch of bees up the one at the bank?

[@kendelion]

hipster be like, yes please! i thought this is for the pneumatic tubes used in machines.

[@iamhappyso]

What happens if you put a live m67 hand grenade in?

[@fferreiralynn83]

Did anyone watch News Radio? 'Magnets'

[@dimitrilensflareabrams2893]

So did Manhattan have any female tubes? You said they had male tubes. Just kidding But seriously the pneumatic tube was totally tubular and I thank you for telling us the tale of that method of transport.

[@chimkinNuggz]

The jetsons got around with tubes

[@loganthompson5079]

Literally sitting at the bank rn

[@UHFStation1]

Futurama baby!!

[@Tumbledweeb]

*raises hand* Question: If I let one rip into a tube and sent it off, would the tube be able to preserve the fartmail's 'data' during it's journey? If yes, then we should totally bring this system back so I can troll the favorite people in my life by sending them 'airmail'! :D

[@pc_man18]

YES

[@tygerbee]

a restaurant with pneumatic tubes hmmm

[@Rose_Butterfly98]

I want the system back for one reason. To put a black cat in one, send it across the street so it crosses everyone's path. I know 2 black cats I can use .

[@6stang97]

Yes

[@MikeMike-bc7jg]

Thank you 😂

[@danielp.5105]

Опа, пневмоторакса другари. На скоро бях в библиотека за справка и ми се струва, че не държат крупен книжен архив в склада, а им пращат някои неща по тази система от някакъв център. Трябва да погледнем блупринта.

[@aodxray2364]

I want to put coco powder in

[@RickMentore]

Not necessary at this time! Paperless messaging has rendered it absolute. Maybe if could carry weighty stuff.

[@ethandapenguin7447]

I want to send a hamster next !

[@Greggee100]

fan is nothing more than a propeller