Facility Management

Pneumatic tubes

neumatic tubes, those quaint reminders of a bygone era, seem to have had their origins in trying to move people. In the early 1800s, as captains of industry tinkered with locomotion, it’s not surprising that pneumatics were tested for transport. The pioneer of the pneumatic tube concept itself was Scottish inventor William Murdoch in the early 1800s, who would later develop systems for the London Pneumatic Dispatch. In 1812, one G Medhurst of Soho of London published his

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