[GreenKeys] Backup system for TTY

[Bruce Gentry]

One of the manufacturers of the pneumatic tube systems, Lamson, had a 
factory here in Syracuse, New York. Department stores and hotels used 
them extensively. The last one I remember seeing in operation was at the 
Addis department store here into the 1980s. The store used it mostly to 
send cash to the office for credit account payments and also for change 
when the supply at a cash register was getting low. Even in the 80s, 
some stores offered their own charge account systems. Hospitals use them 
to quickly move medications and samples from the floors to and from the 
pharmacy and labs. Banks with drive through teller stations use them as 
well. Another company here in Syracuse, Diebold, made the tube systems 
for banks. They later merged with Lamson.

     Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY





On 1/2/22 22:06, Jim Haynes wrote:
> Western Union made extensive use of both pneumatic tubes and conveyor
> belts.  They got quite a number of patents in both fields.  Some of
> the developments are covered in Western Union Technical Review.
>
> When I was in the  AF there was a pneumatic tube connecting the 
> communications building with the adjutant's office in the headquarters
> building.  If a classified message was being sent through the tube in
> either direction we were told to be in telephone contact with someone
> at the other end of the tube until the message came through.
>
> In my childhood in the small town J.C. Penney store there was a
> hand-powered conveyor running between the sales floor and the cashiers
> who were located on a balcony above the show windows.  The sales person
> would put your money and a receipt into the basket and pull a handle
> which would whiz the basket up to the cash handlers, who would make
> change and send it back to the sales floor with the receipt.  I never
> learned the reason for this - was it to keep the sales people from
> handling cash or was it to keep the cash in a place where robbers
> would have a hard time getting to it?
>
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