Time capsule investigation

Miguel Cervera Team: Fusion Time Technology 12/01/2014

1. Choose a duration for your time capsule. 2. Decide where you will store your time capsule. 3. Select a container. 4. Collect the objects to go in your time capsule. Popular toys or tools. Labels or packaging of favorite foods or other products. Include price tags, if you can. Newspapers or magazines showing current events or current trends. Photographs. Filled Journals. Letters Currency Favorite things. Clothes and fashion items of the current time Personal messages to and from others Indicators of high technology. Even if nobody can read the contents of a DVD in 50 or 100 years, you might still enclose one to demonstrate the state of the art.

5. If you wish, write and enclose your own description of what it is like to live right now. 6. Do something to remind yourself or others of the location of the time capsule and the date you intend it to be opened. 7. Seal the time capsule to your satisfaction and store it for the selected amount of time.

Burbank Time Capsule

This is a very small time capsule compared to the others but I wanted to include it because it inspired the list. The 50 year old newspaper clipping above describes a silver-plated lead capsule containing 35-mm films. The capsule was placed in the Magnolia Boulevard Bridge in Burbank California when it was built in 1959 and was to be opened 50 years later. City officials didnt know the capsule was due to be opened until a local historian came across the 1959 newspaper article a few weeks earlier. Workers removed the bridge dedication plaque and noticed a dark patch of concrete and then freed the capsule. The capsule contained 47 photos of the city as well as some predictions of what life would be like in Burbank in 2009.

For making a time capsule like this one we will need a waterproof-material box, some pictures stored in a bag or something that keep them dry, and our predictions about the future

Paris Opera Vault

On Christmas Eve 1907 a group of men gathered beneath the Paris Opera and carefully wrapped two lead and iron containers containing 24 recorded discs. Each were sealed and locked in a small storage room with a note that read This will teach men 100 years from now about the state of our talking machines and the voices of the principal singers of our times In 1912 two more urns were added to the archive plus a hand -cranked gramophone and instructions on how to use it. The project was the idea of Alfred Clark who was the founder and president of EMIs ancestor, the International Gramophone Company. In 1989, during the installation of air-conditioning it was discovered that the archive had been broken open and one of the 1912 urns was empty and the gramophone was missing. The remainder of the archive was immediately transferred to the National Library of France in Parris. At the end of 2007 the archive was opened. Apart from those missing, the discs were undamaged. It was decided that the records should remain unplayed to avoid physical contact with the discs. Since precise details of which discs were in the archive were documented, copies of the same discs available from other archives were used to be digitized. In this kind of time capsule, we would need to bring a CD, USB, MP3 or any other device and another device that can reproduce it with our favorite music, videos, movies or any other media stuff. It would need a resistant material; it also would need to be waterproof.

MY IDEA
Make a room or use a room that isnt buried underground. It would be easier and have more space. We could seal the door with concrete to keep it safely from anyone who wants to open it and destroy the wall when we open it