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Westinghouse Time Capsule Book of Record

Title: The Book of Record of the Time Capsule of Cupaloy, 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, 1939.
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Description: 51, [1] pp. Photogravure frontispiece, other illustrations in text. (8vo) 10x6½, original blue cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition.Also included is a small slip requesting that the book be preserved in a permanent repository and a 36 page pamphlet on the making of the time capsule. This 1939 capsule, along with a second capsule from the World's Fair of 1965 are buried 50 feet below Flushing Meadows Park, the site of the 1939 and 1965 World's Fairs.
Heading: (Westinghouse Time Capsule)Place Published: [New York]
Publisher: [Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company]
Date Published: 1938