USC students in 1977 tried to deal with that issue by using an actual burial vaultĭonated by a local company to hold the artifacts they wanted to preserve for the 2001 In, and delicate items become a soggy mess. The technological challenge is that most timeĬapsules do not protect the things tucked inside of them. They say the artifacts often don’t end up telling future generations very much that Many historians have been a little skeptical of the actual value of time capsules. Don’t hold your breathįor seeing what’s inside - both time capsule cylinders are intended to be opened in ![]() Westinghouse Electric built that cylinderĪnd another one for the 1964 World’s Fair, also in New York, using special metal alloysĭesigned to withstand the elements for thousands of years. The phrase "time capsule" wasn’t coined until the late 1930s, just before one wasīuried at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. It’s a way to say, ‘These are the things that are part of our livesĪnd our culture right now - we want you, people of the future - to experience them. It for some future generation to open and ponder has been likened to shaking hands Filling a box with artifacts from the present and sequestering It is scheduled to be unearthed at homecomingīefore I launch into the laundry list of items that were recovered from the 1977 timeĬapsule and the items that were buried in 2001, let’s consider for a moment the ideaīehind time capsules. I’m Chris Horn, your host for Remembering the Days, and today we’re looking back at the contents of that 1977 time capsule as well asĪnother larger time capsule that was buried on campus in 2001.Ī bronze marker on the front lawn of McKissick marks the spot where the university'sīicentennial time capsule is buried. Year of the university’s bicentennial celebration. That same year, University of South Carolina students created a far more modest timeĬapsule with a shorter-term goal - communicating to the USC community in 2001, the Sent out to whatever intelligent life might exist in the great beyond of outer space. Of languages and natural sounds from Earth - a sort of message in a celestial bottle Each of the Voyager spacecraft carried recordings of music, greetings in dozens In 1977, NASA launched two rockets to gather information about our solar system andīeyond. Inside? Lots of stuff, including a trove of "letters to the future." Time capsule was buried on the Horseshoe with a scheduled opening of 2001. In 2001 as part of the university's bicentennial celebration. USC studentsĭid just that in 1977 when the buried a time capsule on the Horseshoe that was opened Posted on: FebruUpdated on: February 16, 2023īurying a time capsule has been likened to shaking hands with the future. Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.Library Annex and Conservation Facility.College of Information and Communications. ![]() ![]()
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