Forgotten Inventions
Source
Musée de La Poste
The pneumatic postal network
Paris once sent letters through 467 kilometers of underground tubes.
From 1866 to 1984, the Parisian pneumatic post — le pneumatique — whisked messages across the city at 30 km/h through pressurised copper tubes. A letter posted in the Marais could reach Montparnasse in under an hour. The system carried love notes, business dispatches, even suicide letters. Fax machines killed it.
Editor's Note
A small note from the MAGAZINIX desk: worth returning to.
