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Someone already pitched Bezos’ 10,000-year clock — in 1903

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 15, 2026
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1903 proposal for a 150-foot pyramid for Hyde Park

In the November 1903 issue of The Strand, a physician named David Watsu laid out a 150-foot pyramid for Hyde Park, faced in granite or terra-cotta, with catacombs for royalty, an observatory at the apex, and an octagonal central chamber built around a reproduction Druidical arch. Ordinary Britons could s…

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