Vacation Program
- Friday, April 17, 2020
- 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
- Designed for ages 9 to 12
- By Andrew Sargent, Site Historian & Lead Educator
Writing is a code. It can deliver messages with open clarity. It can deliberately hide meaning. Eli Whitney's friend Decius Wadsworth devised a brilliant coding machine over 200 years ago.
• Construct simple letter substitution coders.
• Construct a working Wadsworth Cipher machine.
• Send secret messages that only your friend can read.
