If you spend enough time driving down the correct route, you may see them: the slim black wires that appear at random along the road. However, the scaled-down ...
By some accounts, it dates to the 1820s, when early Americans supposedly used pneumatic inner tubes to carry people and goods across snowy terrain, supposedly because pneumatic tubes weren’t ...
A Nottingham firm has parcelled up a unique cocktail delivery method at a ‘top-secret’ 1940s postal service-inspired bar in one of London’s trendy suburbs. The pneumatic tube system has been created ...
The annual No Trousers Tube ride has taken place despite plunging temperatures in the capital. Trouserless passengers were seen across the London Underground network including in Westminster ...
Plastic-based toothpaste tubes have traditionally been hard to recycle, with their flexible layers of mixed materials a thorn in the side of council recycling schemes and diligent recyclers alike.
British scientist Archibald M. Low predicted television machines, breakfast tubes, automatic sleep beds, wireless banking, moving sidewalks and one-piece suits made of artificial felt in his 1925 ...
Before email, the CIA used a massive pneumatic tube system to send over 2 million intra-agency messages annually. Spanning 25 miles with four color-coded networks, it delivered items in under a ...