{"id":40,"date":"2010-10-13T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/2010\/10\/13\/medical-buildings-time-capsule\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T18:59:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T17:59:24","slug":"medical-buildings-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/2010\/10\/13\/medical-buildings-time-capsule\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Buildings Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Turnbull was born at Ancrum, Roxburghshire, 29 July 1834. On 22 October 1880, he and Thomas Wilkie had been working on the construction of the Medical School for about 2 years. That date found them working on the boiler house chimney and they sealed into the structure, a bottle containing their details, along with some cuttings from The Scotsman. The bottle and its contents were discovered when the chimney was demolished in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>This small collection includes a note written by William Turnbull contating details about him, his wife, Cecilia, and Thomas Wilkie, which describes their idea.<\/p>\n<p>People such as Turnbull and Wilkie leave little trace of course in the official record. This gives just a small insight into who they were.<\/p>\n<p>[Ref: EUA GD5]<\/p>\n<p>(This article appeared previously on the main CRC Blog)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Turnbull was born at Ancrum, Roxburghshire, 29 July 1834. On 22 October 1880, he and Thomas Wilkie had been working on the construction of the Medical School for about 2 years. That date found them working on the boiler house chimney and they sealed into the structure, a bottle containing their details, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/edinburghuniversityarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}