Science: 5,000-Year Journey

Two years ago the publicity men of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., who are proud of 20th-century civilization, decided to leave a memento of their civilization to the future. The memento was to be not just a written record, but a miniature museum, an assortment of characteristically 20th-century objects packed into a "Time Capsule." It just happened that the New York World's Fair was coming up, so they decided to address the capsule to savants of 6939—5,000 years after the Fair's first year.

At Westinghouse's World's Fair site on Long Island, they bored a narrow well 50 ft. deep, lined it with...

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