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[Defeat the Horde Challenge #3] Shocking Signs Mystery Cache

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FugeFinders:
This one had a good run, and pictom made a great series of puzzles. Sad to see one of them go.

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Hidden : 8/1/2012
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The MultiCare Medical Center Central Utility Plant supplies heat in the form of steam; generates standby electrical power; and provides medical gas to the hospital. The names inscribed on the building are of scientist, inventors, and engineers whose discoveries over the past three centuries are fundimental to the process inside the plant.

I am presenting the names below in the order in which they are presented on the building. Below each image is the method used to convert the plaque to a number.

The cache is located at N 47° 15.ABC W 122° 26.DEF

 

The puzzle is to figure out which six of the fourteen digits are used and in what order they are to be placed.

 

Newton

Newton-Number of lines of text

Watt

Watt-Number of letters in person's last name

Volta

Volta-Number of letters in first word on last line

Carnot

Carnot-Number of letters in the last word

Ampere

Ampere-Number of letters in quotes

Ohm

Ohm-Number of letters in name (first and last)

Faraday

Faraday-Subtract year of death from the year of death

Maxwell

Maxwell-Number of words (not numbers) on first line

Joule

Joule-Number of two letter words

Otto

Otto-Number of characters used in last name (do not count repeated characters)

Babcock & Wilcox

Babcock & Wilcox-Additional number of names than on other plaques

Boltzman

Boltzman-Number of Qs

Diesel

Diesel-Number of number characters between the parentheses

Telsa

Telsa-Number of letters in the word starting with C



 

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