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TechStuff Classic: A Series of Tubes Part One

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The Pneumatic Transport System

The eolian engine in 18 hundred was an kindof like a car running on compressed air. It consisted of an iron tube that was six feet high by six feet wide, which was about one point eight meters each. And had rails along the bottom of this b so cars would be set on the rails and then blown through the tubes using compressed air. Air could be subjected to just forty pounds per square inch of pressure - it's about two and a half times the amount that the atmosphere exerts upon us right now. I'm if we could increase that two-and-a-half times, that air molecules could be propelled at a like, a thousand miles an hour,. wow

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