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Show $ Excavators 5,000 Years Hence : $0VCapsuW Record of Our Times? from now. Known as a "time cS l2 5'0 years preserve for scientists of G939 A D at i f enveloPe will in our time. It will be deposited' 5(1 'f f"8!, C record of life 1-c I. I l l": J. 15. Scaslone nnrt W. A Graham inspect the 7!i-foot "time capsule" and its 6-foot inner shell j ot heat-resistant Rlass before they I were packed for shipment to New ! "'' " here they will be buried for i the next 5,000 years. BHLOW: llar-, llar-, ry 1' isher pours molten metal, in ; which the atoms or copper, silver j and chromium have been "juggled " I nilo segment molds which form the i ' capsule." y I , 4 y ' 1 I ? . 1 r JS -if- 1 I ' ' ' I I , i E .jc s 1 . . l C X tv ' - ; V f,T- '" '1 j ' H i H 5 a V ' f ; i r -I ? ,y r i I 1 1 J 4 i' 1 ' 1 f nM M Hi,., n iVv,Nl i AN I ; I ; 1 s v -I- IT , Ll : go All Cf v b 1 , x sj. '' i . ,ss t tri Accompanying the "time capsule" is a sis.foot . crypt of heat-resistant glass. U of Cmmiltee selected a se tion "ting a "cross- ber!r,1Ur.tlme" th objects will ,e plac,ed lnde this glass envelope and I "Placed by an inert gas to act as a preservative. The sealed glass ubevvm then be wrapped with ll tape, and embedded in a waterproof compound. Before the caps lowered fte last section e s mblcd, shrunk-fit on tapering joint P1'0ducin2 a water-tight The capsule is not expected to deteriorate de-teriorate because it is made of a new metal called "cupaloy," composed com-posed of copper, chromium and silver. sil-ver. Engineers are confident it will withstand the ravages of' 5,000 years' time, even the corrosion effect ef-fect of sea water seeping through New York's foundation soil.' Carefully designed, the "time capsule" cap-sule" was cast in seven sections end after machining, all segments except the last were screwed together to-gether and sealed with an asphalt compound. Joints were then peened out and burnished, forming a solid unbroken outside shell. shnnPH Hifo X N .X xx x .x (SWTlWWit xXXx ' i V x xx X X x X vx 1 X x X x xXV I 1 s x SX S. "1 X t x f xx N 4 X X x " x , 1 .. X x I xxx nfF'V 1 Workers who manufactured the "time capsule" inspect their craftsmanship crafts-manship as the 800-pound cupaloy "note to the ages" is carried by crane from its birthplace in the factory fac-tory to be packed and shipped to New York. In this bullet-shaped repository re-pository will be preserved a tangible tangi-ble record of achievements in our age for the people of 6939. Included will be newsreels and books reduced on "microfilm." a torpedo 7 feet long and 8 inches Jin diameter. ! Scientists hope the record will jremain untouched for 5,000 years, though they admit the likelihood -that archeologists a thousand years hence may uncover it to learn about life in the year 1939. |