Tour One of the World’s Largest Pneumatic Tube Systems | Palo Alto

Submitted by the Event Organizer

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 in front of the Stanford Medical Center at 300 Pasteur Dr. at 10am.

• RSVP here: http://obscuraday-stanford.eventbrite.com/
• Cost: Free, RSVP is required

Obscura Day is an international celebration of unusual places taking place around the world on March 20, 2010. It is sponsored by Atlas Obscura, a guide to the world’s wonders, curiosities, and esoterica.

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