This cache is not where the pin is, you will need to solve the puzzle below to find where the box is. Once at the cache there are two field puzzles to get to the log. Please leave enough time to complete these and sign the log, and please reset them when you are done so the next cacher can enjoy them. This cache is a letterbox so the stamp should remain in the bag and box with the log. There is space for small trackable in the box with the log, and medium trackables in the outer cache.
James Kennedy
Born on the 13th January 1797 in Gilmerton, James Kennedy was baptised in Liberton Kirk on the 2nd February that year. The pin for this cache is at the Kirk, though the current building was only erected in 1815.
At the age of 13 he went to Dalkeith to become a millwright’s apprentice where over the next 5 years he learnt the details of winding and pumping engines. This knowledge took him next to Sir John Hope's Colliery in Lasswade. After a time at the colliery he took on various projects, cotton mills at Blantyre, water wheels with the Monkland Iron and Steel Co, designing engines to be used at Laverock Hall (now Larkhall) and even Lochrinn Distillery in Edinburgh!
While working as foreman at a factory he made engines for the St. George Steam Packet Co.'s ship 'Emerald Isle' and travelled to Liverpool to supervising their fitting. While in Liverpool he met George Stevenson and in 1824 Stephenson put him in charge of his engine works in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Kennedy continued making both marine engines and locomotives, in 1842 he joined a partnership with Edward Bury to form Bury, Curtis and Kennedy. Over the next decade the company built some 415 locomotives including the one below, "Coppernob" who is the last surviving example in the UK of a "bar-framed" locomotive, though the design became standard in the USA.
Picture of one of “Coppernob” one of the engines made by Bury, Curtis and Kennedy in Liverpool. Picture taken on one of my many trips to The National Railway Museum in York
In 1847 he was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and he became president of the same in 1860. The very dapper photo below is from their archives.
Picture from 1860, from the archives of the IMechE -Picture
In September 1886 he died in his home in Garston, near Liverpool.
The Puzzle
Here we have some machines that change words, the outputs are always words or single letters. We have put in some test words so you can figure out what each machine does, then there are 3 puzzle words.
Once you've worked out what these machines do you can transform the words BORED,TART,LEFT by following the paths below and then enter the answers answerBORED,answerTART,answerLEFT (all capitals with no spaces, to get the final coordinates) into the checker below.
You can validate your puzzle solution with
certitude.
If you are struggling to read/interpret the diagrams a description is provided below: Five machines A, B and C above and D and E below, words travel along the following routes…
- POOLS goes into B then into C and comes out as FOOL
- DARK goes into A then into D and comes out as STARLIGHT
- FLOWER goes into E and comes out as FLOUR
- EIGHT goes into E then into C and comes out as AT
- E goes into D then into E and comes out as STAIR
- POUR goes into E then into A and comes out as RICH
- GROWN goes into B then into A and comes out as SMILE
- TO goes into C then into D then into A and comes out as END
To find the cache work out what happens when
- BORED goes into E then into D then into A then into B then into C then back into E and comes out as the first answer.
- TART goes into C then into B then into A and comes out as the second answer.
- LEFT goes into A then into E then comes out as the third answer.