Time Capsule

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 May 2015 01:30 Written by Albert Greenhut Thursday, 15 January 2015 05:04

We go through life collecting memories, of times of people, sometimes all it takes is a part of a song, or the sight of some long forgotten trinket to allow memories to come cascading back into our conscience minds.  Time capsules are nothing new, but they give us is a glimpse of a time gone by, insight into what people tenderly put away or consider important or worthy of being saved for later generations.  We do not have them here to let us know why they saved particular items, but we are allowed new insights.

It was with great excitement that the New State House in Boston had a time capsule extracted from its building during repairs.  The time capsule had been discovered in 1855, removed, viewed and put back into place.  This will happen again, but for a short time we have the privilege of seeing what Samuel Adams and Paul Revere, two great American icons, thought would be important to save for posterity.

We, at Intercept Technology, were contacted in order to provide our Corrosion Intercept® materials to the cause, to help provide the well established corrosion protection for the items inside.  You can see the time capsule laid on Intercept film, providing a safe, non-contaminating surface for the items to be removed and viewed.  We were also asked to provide Intercept bags for all of the items to be placed into, so that once the items go off display they can be returned, protected, to their resting place in the corner of the New State House for future generations to have their own thrill of discovery.  You can learn more about Intercept and the work we do with museums around the world, protecting their collections from corrosion, degradation and decay by going to our website www.InterceptTechnology.com