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Tends to be overlooked that the steam age was also the pneumatic age.

Lewis & Clark’s powderless rifles you had to pump like a Super Soaker, train air brakes

Like, a century before the ‘90s vogue of bike messengers quickly transporting documents across downtown business districts, major cities had pneumatic tube mail.

(Know what’s gonna vibe like that in the future? Cable TV franchising.)

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