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Early Pneumatics
Early Pneumatics
Two piston machine for continuous flow of water for fire extinction, probably a work
of CTESIBIUS and later improved by HERO of Alexandria 250 B.C.
Magic fountain
A period pneumatic mail capsule (Courtesy of the National Postal Museum).
A pneumatic tube table, Central Telegraph Office, London, during the 1930s (Source: MacGregor).
1894 Encyclopaedia Britannica statistics on the early growth of pneumatic postal
Pneumatic Despatch Company’s prototype system at Battersea Fields, London 1861
Hero of Alexandria (dates undetermined, between 150 BC and 300 AD)