A Love Letter to the Lost World of the Parisian Pneumatic Post
www.messynessychic.com
Pneumatic post, 1947 © Alamy Years before the Paris Métro opened, there was another subterranean transport system rattling away beneath the city streets. Instead of messages floating around in the internet ether of apps and social networks, if you wanted to send a note to someone in your city in

I was reading A Coffin for Dimitrios (great book), and found a character saying “send me a pneumatique when you get to Paris.” And in fact, there was a series of pneumatic tubes to speed the mail in Paris for over 100 years. Thought it was cool. Here’s the wiki as well.

  • JASN_DE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    The technology is still in use today and new systems are built, e.g. for moving around kab samples in large hospitals or industrial sites. Pretty hard to email those.