Gone with the wind: Tubes are whisking samples across hospital
Friday, January 8, 2010 - 15:28
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- Every day, 7,000 times a day, Stanford Hospital staff turn to pneumatic tubes, cutting-edge technology in the 19th century, for a transport network that the Internet and all the latest Silicon Valley wizardry can't match: A tubular system to transport a lab sample across the medical center in the blink of an eye.