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What Are Time Capsules?

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Posted on: July 13, 2011
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What Are Time Capsules?

Westinghouse Electric Company Time Capsules

Westinghouse Electric Company Time Capsules

Time capsule is the safety vessel in which all the things and information related to humans are stored for the use of future generations. This mainly brings awareness in the future generations who live after thousands of years. This time capsule will be closed properly so that water and air don not go into it and they will bury the time capsule in the earth. First time capsule was prepared by Westinghouse Electric Company in 1939. They had stored the arts, literature, news and other things related to the 20th century people. Micro films are used to store the information related to the people and they also stored the toys, fountain pens, seeds and clothes. This time capsule will be opened in the 6939 A.D and after this; many companies had started to design these time capsules. In the time capsule which was designed in 1940, they had stored more than 800 books, related microfilms, Donald duck pictures and the speeches of famous people like Roosevelt, Hitler, Mussolini and others. This capsule will be opened in 8113 year. Time capsule which is made by a shop owner in 1975 in America had entered the Guinness world records as the largest time capsule. There are all the things from small one to big ones. There are things like cars, bikes and pans also. This time capsule will be opened after fifteen years and that is in 2025.

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