{"id":23280,"date":"2017-02-03T20:47:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T20:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=23280"},"modified":"2024-11-27T10:25:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:25:53","slug":"message-in-a-bottle-what-should-we-put-in-the-engineering-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/02\/message-in-a-bottle-what-should-we-put-in-the-engineering-time-capsule\/","title":{"rendered":"Message To the Future: Items Needed for the Engineering Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, as we planned the UConn Engineering Centennial, Dean Kazem Kazerounian proposed a time capsule to commemorate our historic milestone.\u00a0 Since the 19<sup>th<\/sup> and 20<sup>th<\/sup> centuries, tens of thousands of various <em>message in a bottle<\/em> containers have been installed around the world.\u00a0 Many have been lost to history and vanished from memory.\u00a0 Others, accidentally or purposely recovered, have surprised and informed future generations about bygone days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To preserve our curated collection of private and public engineering, technology and contemporary memorabilia, inventions, artifacts, and historical collections for posterity, UConn Engineering acquired a 14\u201d x 14\u201d x 30\u201d bolted, stainless steel time capsule box from a specialty manufacturer.\u00a0 The box will be encased in a custom designed and molded ultra-high performance fiber reinforced concrete vault in Associate Professor Kay Wille\u2019s lab in the department of civil &amp; environmental engineering. The capsule will be lowered into the vault in a garden location adjacent to the new Engineering &amp; Science Building during a special ceremony in mid- to late-April 2017.\u00a0 A plaque will direct the recovery of the capsule in one hundred years at our bicentennial, marking the site and commemorating the event.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re looking for some <strong>specific items<\/strong>, including a smartphone, slide rule, wearable health tracker\/monitor, tablet, and a Lego structure. Please contact <a href=\"mailto:heidi.douglas@uconn.edu\">Heidi Douglas<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to donate any of these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re putting a time capsule in a garden outside the new Engineering &amp; Science Building and we&#8217;re looking for a few specific items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":221844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[49],"class_list":["post-23280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 14:26:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221850,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23280\/revisions\/221850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/221844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23280"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=23280"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}