But the idea, if not the term “time capsule,” long predates the 1939 publicity venture sponsored by Westinghouse. In 1976, President Gerald Ford went to Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol to ...

To protect it against the ravages of time, the Westinghouse capsule was made in the form of a cupalloy torpedo with an inner glass shell flooded with nitrogen gas. The MIT capsule is much smaller ...

As time-capsule expert William E ... also set off a fad, which prompted the Westinghouse Company’s decision to include a similar project in their exhibition for the 1938 World’s Fair.

Westinghouse 1939 Time Capsule Sealed at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, and is supposed to be opened in 6939. The time capsule contains microfilm, newsreels, seeds and fabrics. 3,000 copies of ...

Here we take a look at 12 unique time capsule that have been unearthed over the years. From the Westinghouse Time Capsules (to be excavated in 6939) to one of the oldest known time capsules ...

You can visit the site of the time capsule on our upcoming tour of the Remnants of the World’s Fairs at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park! Photo via Wikipedia Commons, The Story of the Westinghouse ...

Two time capsules, one in 1939 and another in 1965, were buried under the site of the New York World's Fair in Flushing-Meadows Corona Park in New York City's Queens borough by the Westinghouse ...

When the Westinghouse Company was planning a 5,000-year time capsule to be dedicated at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, one adviser laughed, “Who in 5,000 years’ time will care about Howard ...

While most time capsules, like Westinghouse’s and the Crypt of Civilization, speak generally about a culture, Ant Farm’s are more personal, and say something about individuals. Hence the focus ...

“Time capsules are both optimistic and selfish ... Following this ambitious ideal, the two midcentury Westinghouse World’s Fair capsules contain Camel cigarettes and a Sears catalog ...

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