Thornwell Jacobs

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Thornwell Jacobs (February 15, 1877– August 4, 1956) was an American academic.

He is the refounder and president of Oglethorpe University, where he made the Crypt of Civilization time capsule, which was sealed off with steel doors in 1940 (enlisted in Guinness Book of Records as the first successful attempt to do this).

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