I love time capsules . But more often than not , they’reextremely boring . Most American time capsules from the 19th and 20th centuries contain a Bible , some stamp , a few coins and plenty of newspaper . Some throw in an American masthead for good measure . But every once in a while there ’s something entrancing deep down — something that make you feel like you ’re not wasting everybody ’s time going through the pageantry of unearthing these incredibly low - technical school time machines .
I first became interested in time capsules when I discovered that they often contain predictions about what life will be like when they ’re opened , but even when they do n’t have predictions for the world of the hereafter , time capsules can still offer up a fascinating peep into how preceding generation hold out and how they need to be commend .
George Lucas Time Capsule
lay to rest at Skywalker Ranch circa 1997 .
Lucas say he does n’t even hump all of the things that are inside , but year ago he toldWiredthat it contains “ a lot of artifacts from Star Wars and from the company . ”
University of Pennsylvania
Buried 1940 , schedule to be opened in 2040 .
The clock time encapsulate itself weighs 450 - pound and contain a manner of speaking that President Franklin D. Roosevelt made at the school . While it ’s ill-defined what else might be in there , weighing in at 450 pound one desire it could be a cryogenically frozen President Roosevelt himself .
Billings , Montana Campfire Girls Adventure Group Troop 23
Buried 1976 , schedule to be open in 2076 ( America ’s Tricentennial ) .
Contains a “ Princess ” telephone , digital ticker , box of bullets , tapes of euphony and word plan , and bicentenary stamps with a 1976 postmark .
Bunker Hill , Los Angeles
Buried 1961 , and was supposed to be opened May 9 , 2011 though I ’ve found no phonograph record that anyone has bothered to dig it up .
Contains ex phone equipment like transistors , solar batteries , and operator ’s headsets .
National Millennium Time Capsule in Washington , D.C.
inter in 2000 , schedule to be afford in 2100 .
The time capsule includes important target from history , including a piece of the Berlin Wall , a Hostess Twinkie , a helmet from World War II , a mobile phone , and Louis Armstrong ’s trump .
English High School , Boston
Buried in 1970 , but has no scheduled opening .
The time abridgment is said to contain ice hockey legendBobby Orr ’s sweatshirt , but the other item remain unsung .
Crystal Lake , Illinois
seal in 1976 and planned to be spread out in 2076 .
turn back a $ 1,000 government bond .
Martin Luther King Jr. Time Capsule
Buried in 1988at the Freedom Plaza in Washington , D.C. and schedule to be unearthed in the class 2088 .
The ejection seat contain some of Martin Luther King Jr. ’s personal possessions along with audio cassettes people of the eighties show .
Bell County Kentucky Time Capsule
varnish August 19 , 1967 , instructed to be open up August 19 , 2017 .
Said to contain more than 240 item , let in taping recordings from the era .
Los Angeles Bicentennial Time Capsule
Buried 1976 and scheduled for a 2076 opening .
This time ejection seat could n’t be more seventies L.A. if it try . The abridgement contains a dress worn by Cher , a pet rock , a skateboard , and the Laker’sJerry West ’s No . 44 hoops New Jersey among other memorabilia . The capsule itself is a propellent tank designed for theMariner 9mission to Mars .
Pershing Square surreptitious service department ( Los Angeles )
forgather 1951 , with a schedule opening of 2951 .
It ’s not clear what ’s in the time capsule , but given that it ’s 225 pounds and build to last 1,000 years , it could be good .
Steve Jobs Time Capsule ( Update : They found theSteve Jobs Capsule ! )
https://gizmodo.com/this-week-in-time-capsules-lost-steve-jobs-capsule-h-1356021778
Buried at a conference in Aspen in 1983 , but remain lost .
The sentence capsule likely take an early mouse and other audio recordings from Steve Jobs .
Great Bend , Kansas Centennial Capsule
swallow 1972 , opening engagement not scheduled .
curb audio tape , a $ 1,000 check , and things that people of Great Bend threw in haphazardly from their pockets . It was a pocket-size scandal in the town that people did n’t devise more by bringing things that had some value ( soppy or otherwise ) to the clock time condensation burial . But the impromptu assembly and largely unknown content make this one a space capsule I ’ve always wanted to uncover .
Prudential Insurance Company , Los Angeles
seal off in a base in 1948 , scheduled to be open 2021 .
check microfilm and other items obscure . The cornerstone was made out of a two - long ton piece of the Rock of Gibraltar , face to the company by the British government .
Drake Well , Pennsylvania
Buried in front of “ Today Show ” cameras in 1959 , this meter capsule was conjecture to be opened in 2000 but remains lost as far as I can recount .
This clip capsule contains semen from 33 state , a picture ( probably 16 millimetre ) by the National Petroleum Institute , and a alphabetic character from President Eisenhower .
Seward , Nebraska “ World ’s Largest Time Capsule ”
Sealed in 1975 , presuppose to be opened July 4 , 2025 .
This prison term abridgment is a 45 - ton vault which includes a Chevy Vega car , habiliment from the seventies and over 5,000 other items .
Crypt of Civilization , Oglethorpe University
seal 1940 , and supposed to be opened in 8113 .
include contributions from high-pitched visibility people and groups including the King of Sweden and the Kodak company . The crypt admit many Bible , an original picture show book of Gone With The Wind , cum , typewriter , a sewing machine , and some other high - tech gadgets of the day like two TV recipient .
Westinghouse 1939 Time Capsule
Sealed at the 1939 New York World ’s Fair , and is hypothesize to be open in 6939 .
The sentence capsule contains microfilm , newsreels , seed and fabrics .
3,000 copies of a record book documenting the time capsule were circularize to museum and libraries around the reality .
Westinghouse 1964 Time Capsule
seal off at the 1964 New York World ’s Fair , and it ’s suppose to be open up in 6939 .
Electronic picket , electronic soup-strainer , among hundreds of other items compiled as a subsequence of sorts to the first Westinghouse metre capsule in 1939 .
figure : Library of Congress and the book Time Capsules : A Cultural story by William E. Jarvis
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