Open Menu
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
lotide
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
Login

An Antique Dress Held a Secret: A Coded Message From 1888

⁨9⁩ ⁨likes⁩

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨silence7@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/08/us/antique-dress-weather-code.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME0.XYmo.Y6PGy1JsJhXi

source

Comments

Sort:hotnewtop
  • PotentialProblem@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For those who don’t want to click the article it was a weather report

    Wayne Chan, a data analyst at the University of Manitoba, finally cracked the case. The note, he wrote in a recent study, contained codes used to telegraph condensed weather observations for stations in the United States and Canada in 1888. Each message started with a station location, followed by code words for temperature and pressure, dew point, precipitation and wind direction, cloud observations, wind velocity and sunset observations, Mr. Chan wrote.

    source