pneumatic tube

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  • The pneumatic tube and lift ser­vice in the sublevels was drastically cur­tailed. —  Astounding Stories January, 1935
  • For a moment, I thought we'd been jettisoned into the vacuum ... then the cab passed through a ring, and I realized that the tram was a pneumatic tube running along the side of a thick cable. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • It's pretty bad when the most exciting thing the director (Russell Mulcahy, of Highlander fame) can think to shoot is the trip of a paper note through a pneumatic tube delivery system. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 01 - January 1995
  • Edward watched the effects on the stock-market of these little notes which he wrote out and then shot through a pneumatic tube to Mr. Gould's brokers. —  A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
  • We were conducted thither by an underground pneumatic tube at a great velocity. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
 

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