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Berlin’s Jazz Age Nightclubs Let People Message Each Other Through Pneumatic Tubes
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Berlin’s Jazz Age Nightclubs Let People Message Each Other Through Pneumatic Tubes

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Berlin’s Jazz Age Nightclubs Let People Message Each Other Through Pneumatic Tubes

In our time there are lots of apps and other programs that help people who are looking to date. Back in the 1920s, some clubs in Berlin let singles flirt using pneumatic tubes and tableside telephones!

By Brady Carlson|2024-12-13T07:46:01-05:00January 10, 2024|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: adaptive tech, Berlin, Germany, nightclubs, pneumatic tubes, telephones|

New York City Used To Deliver Mail Through Pneumatic Tubes
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New York City Used To Deliver Mail Through Pneumatic Tubes

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New York City Used To Deliver Mail Through Pneumatic Tubes

Today in 2006, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens famously told his colleagues that the Internet was not a dumptruck, it was a series of tubes, figuratively speaking. But here’s a story about some literal tubes that New York City once used to deliver mail.

By Brady Carlson|2024-12-13T07:45:19-05:00June 28, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: baseball, mail, New York City, New York Yankees, pneumatic tubes|