Cash carriers were used in shops and department stores to carry customers' payments from the sales assistant to the cashier and to carry the change and receipt back again. The benefits of a "centralis
Cash ball system at the Up-To-Date Store, Coolamon, N.S.W.
Rapid Wire carrier in Dartford Museum, Kent
Pneu-Art terminal of pneumatic tube system at Arding & Hobbs department store, Clapham Junction, London
Pneumatic tubes are systems that propel cylindrical containers/carriers through networks of tubes by compressed air or by partial vacuum. They are used for transporting solid objects, as opposed to co
Cash carrier
…Cie Department Store in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC which was installed in 1923. Several of the above companies also made pneumatic tube systems - see Lamson tube. They are still installed in a few shops. Modern pneumatic tube systems are also now used in supermarkets for moving cash in bulk from tills to the…
A pneumatic tube system in Washington, D.C., in 1943
Pneumatic tubes at a drive-through bank
NASA Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 mission, with pneumatic tube canisters in console to the right
Pneumatic tube letter (Rohrpost-Brief) from Berlin, Germany, 1904