Grover Whalen and A.W. Robertson watching the Westinghouse Time Capsule being lowered into its crypt for 5000 years, at the New York World's Fair in 1938. It was ninety inches long, had a diameter of 6.5 inches, and weighed 800 pounds. It contained everyday items such as a spool of thread and doll, a vial of staple food crop seeds, a microscope, a 15-minute newsreel and microfilm spools of a Sears Roebuck catalog, dictionary, almanac, and other texts.