Pneumatic tubes were supposed to revolutionize the world but have fallen by the wayside. Except in hospitals. Pneumatic tubes were touted as something that would revolutionize the world. In science ...

When New York launched its pneumatic-tube mail system in the fall of 1897, postal workers tested it out by sending canisters loaded with a Bible wrapped in an American flag, an artificial peach, a ...

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Pneumatic tube systems (PTS) have become an integral component of modern hospital infrastructure, enabling the rapid and reliable transport of blood samples from clinical areas to central laboratories ...

Tucked behind the interior walls of thousands of hospitals in the US are little-known networks of air-pressurized tube systems that transport medications, bloodwork, and test samples, among hospital ...

Security researchers have detailed vulnerabilities in the system controlling the pneumatic tube networks used in thousands of hospitals around the world, which could allow hackers to disrupt the ...

Powerful tubes will suck up trash and recycling debris at 60 miles per hour in a new $32 million garbage system being built at the New York City Housing Authority’s Polo Grounds in Harlem. The ...

Researchers have identified several high-risk vulnerabilities in a popular model of pneumatic tube systems (PTS) that are used by many hospitals to transport sensitive materials including lab ...

It's all too common to find hackable flaws in medical devices, from mammography machines and CT scanners to pacemakers and insulin pumps. But it turns out that the potential exposure extends into the ...

While the face of Mayo Clinic shows a cutting edge institution that uses Twitter, YouTube and other tools of the Information Age, a network that dates back to the ...