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Definition: PNEUMATIC TUBE |
PNEUMATIC TUBE1. See Pneumatic dispatch , above. |
Crosswords: PNEUMATIC TUBE |
| English words defined with "PNEUMATIC TUBE": inner tube ♦ tubeless, tubeless tire. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PNEUMATIC TUBE": AIR-CONDITIONING-COIL ASSEMBLER ♦ BOILERMAKER I, boilermaker, assembly and erection ♦ CASHIER, TUBE ROOM, CASHIER-WRAPPER, chip deliverer, CHIP-BIN CONVEYOR TENDER, chip-silo tender, coil fin assembler, compressor operator-adjuster, COUNTER CLERK ♦ discarded tyre ♦ plate fin assembler, pneumatic conveyor, pneumatic friction clutch ♦ RADIO-MESSAGE ROUTER ♦ scrap tyre ♦ TOE PUNCHER, TUBE-BUILDING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ WAD-COMPRESSOR OPERATOR-ADJUSTER. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pneumatics can be traced back to Hero of Alexandria in the 1st century AD. The Victorian Internet used capsule pipelines to transmit telegraph messages, or telegrams, to nearby buildings from telegraph stations.
While they are commonly used for small parcels and documents, they were originally proposed in the early 1800s for transport of heavy freight. It was once envisioned that massive networks of these tubes might be used to transport people; Alfred Beach's first New York Subway system used this principle (but was only 300 feet long!).
It was also speculated that a system of tubes might deliver mail to every home in the US. A major system in Paris was in use until 1983 when it was finally abandoned in favor of computers and fax machines.
Typical applications are banks and hospitals. Many large retailers (such as Home Depot or the Price Club in the US) use pneumatic tubes to transport checks or other documents from cashiers to the accounting office. One modern system lists a speed of 25 feet per second.
Pneumatic tubes were featured in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward which envisions the world of 2000 as filled with tubes; in the movie Brazil; as well as in the (1999) television series Fantasy Island. Links to Pneumatic Tube websites:
http://www.rohrpostanlagen.de
http://www.ptubes.com ptubes.com
http://www.ptcarriers.com ptcarriers.com
http://www.attsystems.com Air Tube Transport Systems
http://zapatopi.net/pneumatic.html Proposal for pneumatic tubes for transporting people
http://future.newsday.com/1/fbak0115.htm Pneumatic tubes for postal service
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/hero/
http://www.capsu.org/
http://www.cix.co.uk/~mhayhurst/jdhayhurst/pneumatic/book1.html
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pneumatic tube."
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I want a pneumatic tube in my house with a scanner that will read my mind, select my food and then shotgun a pre-chewed burger and fries bolus directly into my a-hole while a computer simultaneously deducts the cost from my ATM. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pneumatic tube | 25 |
pneumatic tube system | 22 |
conveyor pneumatic tube | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PNEUMATIC TUBE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | csőposta (pneumatic dispatch, pneumatic mail, pneumatic post). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 気送管 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きそうか". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eumaticpnay ubetay hava basınçlı kargo hattı, basınçlı hava borusu. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-m-n-p-t-t-u-u" | |
-4 letters: emittance, pectinate, pneumatic, punctuate. | |
-5 letters: abetment, abutment, ambience, autunite, incubate, intubate, neumatic, patience, pittance, punctate, tunicate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4E 45 55 4D 41 54 49 43 54 55 42 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001110 01000101 01010101 01001101 01000001 01010100 01001001 01000011 00100000 01010100 01010101 01000010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P N E U M A T I C   T U B E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004E 0045 0055 004D 0041 0054 0049 0043 0054 0055 0042 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)504839554735544337254553639 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Spoken 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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