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The James D Robinson Time Capsule Project is a self initiated and self funded Time Capsule venture designed to conserve in a sealed container, written data and physical artefacts, in the hope that such items will survive for the next 300 years. The Time Capsule was sealed on the 21/03/2017 and will be opened on the 21/03/2317. The opening date was "Chosen for its symbolic association with the first day of spring and the rebirth of life in the natural world, which equates with the new lease of life for the data in the time capsule once opened".((CITE REFERENCE)Possiblr ref his website).

The History
The project was started in early 2016 after Mr Robinson read an Internet article about the Westinghouse Time Capsules. Although this project is on a smaller scale, the principles are the same. They are to conserve elements from the present world for the people of the future, and to also act as an experiment to asses the long term survivability of various materials through real time.

Design
The Capsule is designed as a box within a box, with the smaller inner box designed to carry the artefacts. (Upload Pics of the Design)

After sealing the outer box with a nut and bolt assembly the air in the inner box was replaced with Argon Gas.