- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Time capsules
- Creator:
- Hudson, Paul Stephen
- Date of Original:
- 2004-01-27
- Subject:
- Time capsules--Georgia
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about time capsules in Georgia. Time capsules, sealed containers storing artifacts of the contemporary culture for retrieval in future decades or even millennia, first captured the imagination of the American public in 1936, when Thornwell Jacobs, president of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, suggested the idea in a Scientific American magazine article.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/time-capsules/
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Time Capsules," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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