PROLOGUE: Excerpts From the book; Chariots Of The Gods.


"In 1965 the Americans buried two
time capsules in the soil of New
York so constituted that they could
withstand the very worst that this
earth can offer in the way of
calamities for 5,000 years. These
time capsules contained news that
we want to transmit to posterity, so
that some day those who strive to
illuminate the darkness
surrounding the past of their
forefathers will know how we lived.
The capsules are made of a metal
that is harder than steel; they can
even survive an atomic explosion.
Apart from 'daily news' the capsules
also contain photographs of cities,
ships, automobiles, aircraft and
rockets; they house samples of
metals and plastics, of fabrics,
threads and cloths; they hand down
to posterity objects in everyday use
such as coins, tools and toilet
articles; books about mathematics,
medicine, physics, biology and
astronautics are preserved on
microfilm.
In order to complete this
service for some remote and
unknown future race, the capsules
also contain a 'key', a book with the
help of which all the written
material can be translated into the
languages of the future

In 1938 at the site of the 1939 World’s Fair in
New York, Westinghouse buried a 5,000 year time capsule. It is scheduled to be opened in the year 6963. It is located in the Westinghouse Pavilion of the fairgrounds in Queens, New York.

The Westinghouse Time Capsules are two
time capsules prepared by the Westinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing Company: "Time
Capsule I" was created for the 1939 New York
World's Fair and "Time Capsule II" was created for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Both are buried 50 feet below Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, the site of both world's fairs; the 1965 capsule was placed ten feet north of the 1939 capsule. The capsules are to be opened at the same time in the year 6939, FIVE Thousand years after the first capsule was sealed.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Time_Capsules)

Pic 1: Westinghouse Pavillon. Queens, New York.
(1938)

Pic 2: Onlookers witnessing the event. (1938)

It’s been 76 years since the time capsule was
buried and there are many objects of the original 100 that are already obsolete. Some of the items that we don’t use anymore: micro film and a micro-film reader, Dr. West’s Tooth Powder, a boy’s mechanical spring propelled toy car and a Kodak Bantam Camera. All these items were the newest of their time.

Some items that are in the time capsule that
have lasting power: an alarm clock, a 110 volt electric lamp with a 60 watt Westinghouse bulb, a nail file, a safety pin, tooth brush and a watch.

Pic 1: First Capsule immersed in 1939. In attendance; Executives of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company.

Pic 2: Second Capsule immersed at the New York World Fair in 1964 (26 years later). In attendance, the new board of Executives at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company.

CONSTRUCTION:


The time capsules are bullet-shaped, measure
90 inches (2.3 m) in length, and have an
exterior casing of about 8.75 inches (22.2 cm)
in diameter. Time Capsule I weighs about
800 pounds (360 kg), while Time Capsule II
weighs about 400 pounds (180 kg).
Time Capsule I was made of a non-ferrous alloy called Cupaloy, created especially for this project. Designed to resist corrosion for 5,000 years! The alloy was made of 99.4%
copper, 0.5% chromium, and 0.1% silver. Westinghouse claims that Cupaloy has the
same strength as steel, yet will resist most
corrosion over thousands of years because it
becomes an anode in electrolytic reactions,
receiving deposits instead of wasting away like most iron-bearing metals. Time Capsule II was made of a stainless steel metal called Kromarc, supplied by U.S. Steel. Westinghouse Research Laboratories
determined, with extensive chemical testing, that this new super-stainless steel alloy would resist corrosion, much like the alloy used for Time Capsule I Invented by Frederick Charles Hull.

The contents of the time capsules were sealed inside an insulated, airtight, glass envelope with an interior diameter of 6.5 inches (17 cm) and a length of about 81 inches (210 cm).
The interior of the glass envelope of Capsule I
was filled with nitrogen, whereas Capsule II
was filled with the inert gas, argon. The term
"time capsule" was coined by George Edward Pendray for the 1939 World's Fair
Westinghouse exhibit in New York.

Pic 1: Scientists working on the 2nd Time Capsule.

Pic 2: See through/workings of the Cupaloy

Capsule contents:
1939 Time Capsule I

Among the 35 small, everyday items placed
inside Time Capsule I were a fountain pen and an alphabet block set. Time Capsule I also contained 75 types of fabrics, metals, and plastics. Modern literature, contemporary art,
and news events of the twentieth century were recorded on a microfilm "Micro-File" for
placement in Time Capsule I; the "Micro-File"
holds over ten million words and a thousand
pictures, and has a small microscope for
viewing. There are also instructions included on how to make both a large microfilm viewer and a motion picture projector for the newsreels. Also included in the capsule were copies of Life Magazine, a kewpie doll, one dollar in change, a pack of Camel cigarettes, a 15-minute RKO Pathe Pictures newsreel, a Lilly Daché hat, and millions of words of text put on microfilm rolls which included a Sears Roebuck catalog, a dictionary, and an almanac. A variety of seeds were placed in the time capsule including wheat, corn, oats, tobacco, cotton, flax, rice, soy beans, alfalfa, sugar beets, carrots, and barley. The items in the capsule were selected to chronicle 20th century life in the United States.


During packaging of the contents, under the direction of representatives of the United States National Bureau of Standards, each object was examined to determine
whether it could be expected to last 5,000
years. In addition, care was taken to select items are not interactive and do not decompose into harmful gases or acids. Organic items (for example, seeds) were placed in sealed glass vials.

Five categories of objects were placed inside
Capsule I:

*Small articles of common use

*Textiles and materials (Assorted fabrics, Asbestos, Cloth etc..)

*Essay in microfilm = Books, Speeches, Encyclopedias, Critiques, Time tables, Circulars and 100 ordinary books of different specifications.

*RKO newsreel = The News Reel runs for 15 minutes. It comprises of significant scenes and sounds prepared into film by RKO-Pathe Pictures, INC. for the Time Capsule

*Miscellaneous items = Electric wall switch - Bryant Electric Company. Dollar bills, Silver Dollar, Half Dollar, Penny, Nickel, Dime's and Quaters.

Pic: Items to be preserved in the Time Capsule for 5000 years.

Replica's being displayed for public view. Both Time Capsules on display.

1965 Time Capsule II

Five main categories of objects were placed in Capsule II:

*Articles in common use

*Atomic energy

*Scientific developments

*Space

*Other

The "other" category included images of a
guest book signed by visitors to the
Westinghouse pavilion at the 1964 fair. Signers received tin pins, about 1.2 inches (30 mm) across (roughly the size of an American fifty-cent piece), stating, My name is in the
Westinghouse Time Capsule for the next 5,000 years. The book's pages were photographed onto acetate microfilm and placed into the time capsule. An exact duplicate of the capsule's articles resides at the Heinz History Center beside a replica capsule of Time Capsule I.

Pic 1: Replica's on display.

Pic 2: The original Time Capsule 2 on Display before immersion.

The contents of Time Capsule I were recorded
in a Book of Record of the Time Capsule of
Cupaloy. The purpose of this book is to
preserve knowledge of the existence of the
time capsule for 5,000 years, and to provide
assistance to the people of the year 6939 in
locating and recovering it. More than 3000 copies of the book were distributed to museums, monasteries, and libraries worldwide. In order to avoid confusion
about the 1965 time capsule, a supplement
announcing Time Capsule II was sent to the
original 3,000 depositories of the 1938
edition.

If present-day methods of determining time are lost, future generations will be able to calculate the age of the time capsules using
astronomical data. In the year 1939, there
were two eclipses of the moon, falling on the
third of May and the twenty-eighth of October.
There were also two eclipses of the sun, an
annular eclipse on the nineteenth of April, the
path of annular eclipse grazing the North Pole
of the earth, and a total eclipse on the twelfth
of October, the total path crossing near the
South Pole.


Pic 1: Contents... Time Capsule 1. To be preserved for 5000 years.

Pic 2: Contents of Time Capsule 2

Inscription on the time capsules

The exterior of the 1938 time capsule is die-
stamped with this message to anyone that
might stumble upon it prior to the scheduled
opening year of 6939:

"TIME CAPSULE OF CUPALOY,
DEPOSITED ON THE SITE OF
THE NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR
ON SEPTEMBER 23,1938,
BY THE WESTINGHOUSE
ELECTRIC & MANUFACTURING
COMPANY. IF ANYONE
SHOULD COME UPON THIS
CAPSULE
BEFORE THE YEAR A. D. 6939
LET HIM NOT WANTONLY
DISTURB IT, FOR TO DO SO
WOULD BE TO DEPRIVE THE
PEOPLE OF THAT ERA OF THE
LEGACY HERE LEFT THEM.
CHERISH IT THEREFORE IN A
SAFE PLACE."

Photo credits: Wikipedia, Google.

Interesting

Images of modern day Time Capsules:

Nice info shared Plurimi!

BaEnki:
Nice info shared Plurimi!

Thank you, sir!

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