When Thomas Jefferson was George Washington's secretary of state, one of the "gadgets" he used to send and receive covert messages was this wooden cipher wheel. By dialing a message and reading a line above or below the message, a secret can be decoded. Unless a person had a matching cipher wheel, the secrets would remain secret. With this in mind, our class deciphered some words of our own - strangely, our words happened to be quite seasonal, but they incorporated the same principles as the cipher wheel. This was a short and simple way of connecting with Thomas Jefferson. |
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