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The following is a '''timeline of time capsules''' that are either scheduled to be installed, to be opened or have already been opened.
The following is a '''timeline of time capsules''' that are either scheduled to be installed, to be opened or have already been opened.


Revision as of 15:19, 6 July 2022

The following is a timeline of time capsules that are either scheduled to be installed, to be opened or have already been opened.


Timeline of installations

Install
Year 		Open
Year 		Location Notes Cite
1888 1957 Wall Street, New York City
1891 2018 Palace hotel, Zagreb, Croatia Message which wishes luck and prosperity to the family of the owner Dragutin Schlesinger, achievements during the reign of King Franz Joseph and Ban Khuen-Héderváry, price lists of that time, etc. Also the Obzor and Agramer Zeitung newspapers and several coins. [1]
1894 2015 Kingussie, Scotland 29 September 1894 newspaper; bottle believed to contain whisky. [2]
1896 1996 Perth Observatory, Perth, Australia Contents included X-ray apparatus and X-ray image donated by William John Hancock. [3]
1897 Northam Railway Institute, Northam, Western Australia Contents included several copies of the Northam Advertiser newspaper and several coins. No open date. [4]
1898 2013 Bell tower of the Zagreb Cathedral, Zagreb, Croatia Message from architect Herman Bollé who run the 19th century reconstruction of the Zagreb Cathedral, in it he wished; 'When it is opened, let the Croats be a unified nation'. [5]
1905 1966 Palatka, Florida
1939 6939 Flushing Meadows Park Westinghouse Time Capsules. [6]
1940 8113 Oglethorpe University, Brookhaven, Georgia Crypt of Civilization. [7]
1967 2017 Titusville, Florida City's 100th anniversary, shaped like Gemini space capsule.[needs update] [8]
1973 2073 Alcatraz, California Cement slab. N37° 49.570 W 122° 25.337. [9]
1976 200th anniversary of the Nation, US Treasury Department.
1991 Nackawic, New Brunswick In the head of the World's Largest Axe. [10]
2000 2029 Piscataway, New Jersey, Livingston Campus, Tillett Hall Installed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Livingston College.
2010 2050 Arlington, Washington Installed on the final day of Trafton School being open after the school board voted to close it due to budget concerns. [11]
2010 2110 Santiago, Chile Installed on the Chilean bicentennial, to be opened on the tricentennial. [12]
2013 First Lutheran Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Contents unknown.
2013 2063 City Hall, City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Contents: VIP letters include John Glenn, Barbara Eden. [13]
2013 Vietnam Memorial, Englewood, Florida Contents: Vietnam Memorabilia.
1930 2013 Portsmouth Middle School, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Contents:List of all students' names hand-written by the students. [14]
2013 Globe, AZ Roosevelt Dam 100th anniversary of the AZ Roosevelt Dam, replaces a 1961 time capsule. [15]
2014 2063 Cocoa, FL Eastern Florida State College [16]
2001 2015 Cocoa Beach, Florida, Doubletree Hotel
2013 2038 Newport News, Virginia Contents: Navy coins, the aviator wings of the ship’s first commanding officer and sandstone used to build the White House and the U.S. Capitol. [17]
2005 2055 Merrick Park, Coral Gables, Florida Contents: VIP letters include Barbara Bush.
2017 2317 Durhan County Record Office, Co Durham, England Contents: An eclectic collection of texts, images and small artefacts. Installed in the archive facility within the Durham County Record Office. [18]

References

  1. ^ "VREMENSKA KAPSULA PALACE HOTELA ZAGREB". journal.hr. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  2. ^ "121-year-old time capsule found at bridge near Kingussie". BBC. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  3. ^ Editor. (30 September 1896). The Perth Observatory. Laying the Foundation Stone. The West Australian. Perth. Western Australia. Page 2.
  4. ^ The Northam Advertiser: Western Australia, Saturday 31 July 1897, page 3
  5. ^ . 24sata. 28 September 2013 https://www.24sata.hr/news/otkrili-kapsulu-kad-se-otvori-nek-hrvati-budu-slozan-narod-342827. Retrieved 18 June 2018. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, The Story of Westinghouse Time Capsule of cupaloy (1939)
  7. ^ Oglethorpe University official web site Archived 2008-06-20 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 5 May 2013
  8. ^ Marking time with time capsules, by Ray Osborne, Indian River Journal, 2013 Spring Summer edition
  9. ^ Waymarking web site, retrieved 5 May 2013
  10. ^ New Brunswick official tourism site, accessed 4 May 2013
  11. ^ “Arlington Says Goodbye to Trafton School.” Arlington Times, 18 June 2010, https://www.arlingtontimes.com/news/arlington-says-goodbye-to-trafton-school/., accessed 3 July, 2022.
  12. ^ "Cápsula Bicentenario quedó enterrada por un siglo en Plaza de Armas" [Bicentennial Capsule was buried for one century in Plaza de Armas]. Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos (in Spanish). Santiago. 29 September 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  13. ^ Marking time with time capsules, by Ray Osborne, Indian River Journal, 2013 Spring Summer edition
  14. ^ Seacoast Online|News|June 12, 2013
  15. ^ Arizona Silver Belt (2013-06-26). "Arizona Silver Belt Time capsule placed into Roosevelt Dam". Silverbelt.com. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
  16. ^ EFSC (March 19, 2014). "EFSC Looks Ahead with Time Capsule Burial". Eastern Florida State College. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
  17. ^ "Archived copy". www.detroitnews.com. Archived from the original on 13 July 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. ^ Durham Magazine, 17 April 2017
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