Time Capsule In New York World's Fair

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There are many movies and books that portray traveling through time using a time machine or finding a time capsule. In 1938, the first time capsule was recorded in reference to the one “deemed capable of resisting the effects of time for five thousand years preserving an account of universal achievements embedded in the grounds of the New York World’s fair.” Jones (archaeologist of A.D. 5139) potters about for a while in the region which we have come to regard as New York, finds countless ruins, but little of interest to the historian except a calcified direction sheet to something called a “Time Capsule.” Jones finds the capsule but cannot open it, and decides, after considerable prying at the lid, that it is merely evidence of an archaic