Time Capsule With Over 100-Year-Old Germs Found At Former Bellevue Hospital Medical College
October 9th, 2011Via: CBS:
In 1897, a time capsule was sealed up and hidden away in the cornerstone of what was Bellevue Hospital Medical College in Manhattan. Now, it has been found.
A few weeks ago, that building at East 26th Street and 1st Avenue was demolished.
The contents of the time capsule were recovered and they’re now in the hands of New York University bacteriologist Dr. Martin Blaser, who says it was no ordinary time capsule.
“In addition to papers from that time and materials from students from the Bellevue Medical College and the newspaper the New York Sun from 1897, it also had a test tube that had some bacterial spores in it that were gotten and cultured from a patient in 1896,” Blaser told WCBS 880?s Alex Silverman.
Blaser says his team is trying to wake up those spores and grow them so they can study the organisms.
