We opened a 100 year old wooden box time capsule here in my town and everything inside was perfectly preserved. Photographs, newspaper, money, books etc.
Reminds me of the legendary Nickelodeon time capsule. The Nickelodeon time capsule was first buried on April 30,1992 at the former Nickelodeon Studios in Universal Studios Florida. The capsule contains everything from Twinkies, rollerblades, a Game Boy, and even a piece of the Berlin Wall! It was meant to stay buried there until 2042. However, Nickelodeon Studios would end up closing in 2005 due to moving their live-action stuff to California, ironically on April 30, the time capsule burial's anniversary. So the time capsule was moved to the nearby Nickelodeon Suites resort. However, the Nickelodeon Suites was originally a Holiday Inn, and in 2016 they decided to get rid of the Nickelodeon branding so once again, it had to be moved. This time, to its current location inside their studios in Burbank, CA.
@@jmcg2518 Your standards must be low? Did you have a thing for your librarian growing up? You definitely live in midwest, If you were Californian you would never say that.
My wife's 2nd granduncle William McGregor came from Scotland in 1840 and made his way with his family to Salt Lake City in about 1851. He was on the 4th wagon train to go to to Salt lake City from the Missouri river and they walked the whole way following their ox drawn cart. He was a stonemason and worked 6 days a week on the Temple all the rest of his life and died in 1892 just as it was finished. John
Probably true, by bad "preservation" they actually destroyed its contents. So keeping somewhere in a drawer would have been much better "give or take" 😉😁
Just cause I've seen so many comments talk about her lack of gloves, gloves can actually damage very frail objects, especially old paper. Super old books are almost never handled with gloves because latex and fabric catches onto old paper really easily.
I think scientology handles the u.s. time capsules they have like 4 bunkers in the side of cliffs with huge rooms of barrels really weird i always wonder what all scientology does
@@TJXD the real answer to "who does the big important time capsules in the US?" is actually small private companies with archives in abandoned salt mines. that's where most originals of old film and stuff are kept
Just at the moment when it got interesting because of the old coins, the clip ends. These coins are probably the most valuable and best preserved that this time capsule has to offer.
@@WolfeSaber9933 if you had a bible or family photos in a liquid in order to preserve the documents? The stuff would have been in far better shape if they had simply sealed them in the container
@@ColtsMan2005 you're right, 130 yrs old Bible is not trash. But that Bible became trash as soon as the sealed it in liquid. My family has a family Bible that is roughly the same age and it has never been sealed in water. It is in rough shape, but that due to age and use.
Even back then waterproofing something was easy. You just encase the container in wax or tar. Then you can pour all the concrete you want and it wouldn't hurt it!
A copper box sealed on all seams with solder is all it takes, I helped open one here from 1920 a couple of years ago, it was full of various papers and notes from the town's groups, churches and people and it was all in perfect condition. The box was installed in a hollowed-out limestone cornerstone with the 1920 year on it. The cavity in the stone was cut out from what was going to be the BOTTOM of the stone when installed, and the bottom was mortared up and the stone turned right side up and embedded in the brick wall.
A lot of time capsules were made by well meaning people who didn't have a clue how to do it properly. This is why the results after decades of waiting are often so disappointing. I've heard of cars deposited in time capsules being dug up decades later found to be more rust than anything else. It seems, the ancient Egyptians knew more about time capsules than we do.
Moisture, just that, moisture. Water and mold destroy almost anything. Just enclose the things in salt and dry rocks and let the capsule somewhere dry and it'll last centuries. But no, let put things inside concrete soup
@@Derpderpnik Idk, our soviet time capsules are well preserved. Every year there is a time capsule dug or found in some cities and there like newspapers, journals, books, letters, photographs and so on. 50 - 70 years old. Anyway its always pretty sad to watch people reading letters from the past. Cuz its always: "Hey descendants, we know you'll live in communist society for 20 years already..."
come on maan, i cannot believe how anything could be better preserved if someone had it inside his house on a closet, the conditions of this coudnt be worse.
@@Deezboyofficial without purposefully trying to preserve something for that long it would be impossible, I'm not even sure you could preserve something for 20 years in a warm closet unless it's fully encased in a very airtight resin. I believe this video you saw was a trick my friend, a troll if you will
No 'GLAD' Freezer Bags in those days! ;") No offense, but: Concrete is as good a preserver as any other material _if used properly!_ They mention nothing of preservation only because the items inside seemingly, didn't even last a day! As they say, the items were placed in a Dry, Finished Concrete Ball in 4 separate chambers.. THEN THEY POURED MORE WET CONCRETE IN, _FROM THE TOP!_ ... Everything inside was pretty much immediately destroyed as they say --> due to the MOISTURE of the freshly poured concrete!! They don't mention it but CONCRETE ALSO HEATS UP CONSIDERABLY when it is CURING... (when they built Hoover Dam,. they had to lay THOUSANDS OF 'COOLANT LINES' ALL THROUGH THE CONCRETE OR THE DAM WOULD STILL BE CURING AND NOT FULLY DRY/STRONG TO THIS DAY!!! :O (because the Dam is so thick...) That Ball would have dried pretty fast, but by then, the damage would have been done. Ironically, I suspect the items would have been 'preserved' in that that same destroyed state for the majority of the 100+ years... HAVING BEEN DESTROYED WITHIN AN HOUR AFTER THE ITEMS WERE CAREFULLY PLACED, BY THEN COVERING THEM WITH WET CONCRETE! What they heck were they thinking,?.. You don't need to be in a Nuclear Age to know; Moisture Bad! ;')
Thinking it never was a "time capsule" because back in the day they would have put the stuff in a copper or lead box. This stuff looks to be just thrown in and mixed with the concrete in some sort of symbolism.
I remember always driving by and seeing the statue, and always asking my parents what the statue was for. They would tell me every time, but I would still constantly ask.
128 years is that long ago. Some of those men looked 80, that's means that stuff was only 48 years old when they were kids. 500-600 years and now we're talking.
People enclosing these artifacts in 1892: "People of the future will be so astonished to see how we lived today! They will cherish their findings and we will possibly become famous with the photos we've included! Oh how fun it would be for our descendants eager to learn about our religious practices and leadership!" People in 2020+ watching this video: "They opened a trash ball lined with coi-"
What amazes me is that some amazing stone masons worked on that Temple, but not one of them said 'oh yeah, make sure you seal the time capsule with something that's water proof'
Honest question, are we sure it was intended to be a time capsule and not a memorial piece never meant to be reopened? It's kinda hard to believe that skilled craftsman would not realize that pouring wet concrete over paper would ruin it...
“A journalist atop the temple to witness the laying of the capstone, including the deposit of a time capsule within it containing books, photos, letters, paper notes, medallions and coins (one of his own included) mused ‘on when, how, and under whose eyes it would be exhumed in some untold age in the future’,”
Imagine being excited to put things in a time capsule to be seen by people in the future just for literally everything to be ruined because you covered it all in concrete
gloves are mostly to protect the wearer or just for show, it's generally better for the artifact to use bare hands, especially if its really old paper, which would probably get caught on and tear if it was moved around with latex or fabric.
So basically, because the people who sealed the thing didn't know that pouring wet concrete over a non-waterproofed capsule was a bad idea, the contents were screwed over. Edit: My god people, I was just making an observation, and you all decided to start a comment war. Typical RU-vid when it comes to any slightly-controversial topic, I guess.
@@cozzy124 this is not a time capsule. How can you pour concrete on the things you want to preserve. Imagine pouring concrete on the mummies you want to preserve
@@bobdobalina5552 Hmm, yes, this book is made of book. Do I still get paid for this? I'd rather be literally anywhere else now that I know what was inside.
I am suprised they decided to open it. I lived in SLC 10 years. I came to love and appreciate that city so much. I was really into the video and then it just stops. Where can one find the rest?
"Should we build a doorway to open it?" "Surely in 100 years they'll be clever enough to open it" 128 years later "This is too difficult! How did they engineer this?"
Yeah, it's a shame that modern technology still isn't clever enough to cleanly open up a sold ball of concrete. If they'd only know there was $1.30 in corroded coins and water damaged books, they could have used more care... lmao
It's what gets likes from algorithm homepage hoppers, apparently. That's why they cut and edit it like this, it's what makes the average sub-plebian viewer make happy monkey sounds. If something isn't done right don't give it a thumbs up, downvote that garbage. This was basically clickbait, just when it got to the best part it cuts away.
