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Forgotten Facility: The Pneumatic Tube Mail System in Russian State Library

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This paper describes history of development, installation and usage of pneumatic mail system in Russian State Library. Main peculiarity of this single-pipe system is ability to transfer several carriers simultaneously through the building which it is installed within. Technical solutions which were used to develop the system practically turned it to forgotten relic with both mechanical and electronic transport control techniques combined.

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Acknowledgements

Author wants to kindly acknowledge Arkady Igorevich Aksenoff the Chief Engineer of subsystem II for his assistance and advice. Mr. Aksenoff granted a permission to visit the facility and to access unique documents. Author also wants to acknowledge BMSTU ordinary professor Olga Egorova for her advice dedicated to earlier history of pneumatics and Library.

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  1. Institute of Modern Educational Technologies, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russian Federation

    Andrei Vukolov

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  1. Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Burkhard Corves

  2. LS2N, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France

    Philippe Wenger

  3. Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Mathias Hüsing

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Vukolov, A. (2019). Forgotten Facility: The Pneumatic Tube Mail System in Russian State Library. In: Corves, B., Wenger, P., Hüsing, M. (eds) EuCoMeS 2018 . EuCoMeS 2018. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 59. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98020-1_17

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