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30th century

The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument in Amarillo, Texas, contains four separate time capsules, the last of which is intended to be opened 1000 years after the Time Columns Monument was locked in 1968.

Aliiolani Hale

In December 2005, a capsule buried by Kamehameha V when he laid the cornerstone was located, at the direction of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, by Professor Larry Connors of the University of Denver using ground penetrating radar.

Gliese 581

The signal is a digital time capsule containing 501 messages that were selected through a competition on the social networking site Bebo.

Hougang Primary School

During the prize-giving ceremony the school’s time capsule was sealed by the Superintendent of the N3 Cluster, Miss Teo Lian Geok.The time capsule contains memorabilia such as photographs, examination papers, photographs and articles from the early years marking the foundation of Hougang Primary School and it will be opened at the 50th Anniversary in 2050.

Internet 1996 World Exposition

At the end of the year, a closing ceremony was held in Tokyo, where the fair archives were archived to CD-ROM, blessed by a Shinto priest and put in a time capsule.

Jean-Marc Philippe

Jean-Marc Philippe (died November 12, 2008) was the creator of KEO, a proposed space time capsule.

KEO

KEO is the name of a proposed space time capsule which was to have been launched in 2003 carrying messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when it would re-enter Earth's atmosphere.

Miss Belvedere

Miss Belvedere is the nickname given to a new 1957 Plymouth Belvedere sport coupe sealed in a 50-year time capsule and finally unearthed on June 14, 2007.


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Lafayette-Durfee House

During the United States Bicentennial year of 1976, a time capsule was placed in the base of one of the fireplaces.

Nights in Black Leather

With scenes shot in North Beach, Land's End, and all over San Francisco, Nights in Black Leather is both an erotic romp and a time capsule of gay life in San Francisco in the early 1970s.

North American Time Capsule

North American Time Capsule is a 1967 composition by American experimental composer Alvin Lucier.

Strange Change Machine

The Strange Change Machine was a Mattel toy from the late 1960s, in which "shape memory" plastic figures of prehistoric animals & science fiction-like creatures could be reconstituted from compressed "time capsule" form, and re-compressed back into that form.

The Wayback Machine

Wayback Machine, a digital time capsule created by the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California.

Trenton, Ontario

It features an original Canadian Halifax Bomber, the 75th RCAF time capsule, a Lockheed CC-130E Hercules, and many other aircraft and exhibits.

Wayback

Wayback Machine, a digital time capsule and archiving service for internet resources created by the Internet Archive

William C. Maybury

Also contains letter written to Annie M. Knott, one of the people invited to write letters for the time capsule