Pneumatic Mail Tube Systems

Pneumatic Mail Tube Systems
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 1939
Genre: Postal service
ISBN:

Underground Pneumatic Tube System

Underground Pneumatic Tube System
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Publisher:
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1912
Genre: Pneumatic-tube transportation
ISBN:

EuCoMeS 2018

EuCoMeS 2018
Author: Burkhard Corves
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319980203

This volume presents the latest academic research and industrial applications in the area of mechanisms, robotics and dynamics. Contributions cover such topics as biomedical applications, control issues of mechanical systems, dynamics of multi-body systems, experimental mechanics, haptic systems, history of mechanism science, industrial and non-industrial applications, linkages and cams, mechanical transmissions and gears, mechanics of robots and manipulators, theoretical kinematics. Resulting from the 7th European Conference on Mechanism Science, which was held at RWTH Aachen University on September 4-6, 2018, this works comprises an overview on current research activities across Europe. .

Delayed Response

Delayed Response
Author: Jason Farman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2018-11-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0300240724

A celebration of waiting throughout history, and of its importance for connection, understanding, and intimacy in human communication We have always been conscious of the wait for life-changing messages, whether it be the time it takes to receive a text message from your love, for a soldier’s family to learn news from the front, or for a space probe to deliver data from the far reaches of the solar system. In this book in praise of wait times, award-winning author Jason Farman passionately argues that the delay between call and answer has always been an important part of the message. Traveling backward from our current era of Twitter and texts, Farman shows how societies have worked to eliminate waiting in communication and how they have interpreted those times’ meanings. Exploring seven eras and objects of waiting—including pneumatic mail tubes in New York, Elizabethan wax seals, and Aboriginal Australian message sticks—Farman offers a new mindset for waiting. In a rebuttal to the demand for instant communication, Farman makes a powerful case for why good things can come to those who wait.

An Express of the Future

An Express of the Future
Author: Michel Verne
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 9
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1776672011

Though originally attributed to his father, Jules Verne, due to an error on the part of the publisher, the short tale "An Express of the Future" was actually penned by Jules Verne's often-estranged son, Michel. The story is remarkable in its prescient description of future technologies, such as pneumatic tubes.