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Saturday, March 20

Tour One of the World’s Largest Pneumatic Tube Systems | Palo Alto
Saturday, March 20 – 10:00 am | Cost: FREE* | Stanford Medical Center
Tour One of the World’s Largest Pneumatic Tube Systems | Palo Alto

As part of the 2010 Atlas Obscura Day, Join Stanford University Hospital chief engineer Leander Robinson on a tour of one of the largest pneumatic tube networks in the world. Snaking through the medical center’s walls are four miles of tubes that shuttle specimens and paperwork around the facility at 18 miles per hour. Robinson will explain how this incredible system works.
Meet at the fountain …