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Unfortunately this event is all booked up. If you'd like to add your name to the waiting list above, we'll let you know if a spot opens up.
But that doesn't mean there can't be another Obscura Day event in the Bay Area. Help us organize us one. Email us, and let us know what you're thinking. We'll work with you to sort out the details.
Not sure what organizing an event entails? Don't worry about it! Tell us about places you think we should include in Obscura Day: curious tours you've been on, your neighbor's tin foil rollercoaster, whatever... we want to hear from you!
Writes Sara Wykes:
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.
Join Stanford University Hospital chief engineer Leander Robinson on a tour of one of the largest pneumatic tube networks in the world. Snaking through the medical center's walls are four miles of tubes that shuttle specimens and paperwork around the facility at 18 miles per hour. Robinson will explain how this incredible system works.
(Photos courtesy of Stanford School of Medicine)
Read more about the Stanford pneumatic tube system.
DETAILS AND DIRECTIONS
We will meet at the fountain in front of the Stanford Medical Center at 300 Pasteur Dr. at 10am.
ABOUT OBSCURA DAY
Obscura Day is an international celebration of curious places happening around the world on March 20, 2010. It is sponsored by Atlas Obscura, a guide to the world's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. To find out more about the Atlas and Obscura Day, or to find out how you can host an event in your city, visit ObscuraDay.com, or follow us on Twitter or Facebook.
While you are out exploring, we encourage you to take pictures and tag them on Flickr as Obscura Day and tweet using #obscuraday so we can all watch Obscura Day unfold all over the world.
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Fountain in front of Stanford Medical Center
300 Pasteur Dr.
Palo Alto,
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