To find this cache, you MUST first solve Part 2, the other night
cache portion of this puzzle. But you really should do the research
here first, to save you a trip to the cache location. It sounds
backwards, but you need to solve Part 1 so you can use Part 2 to
find Part 1's container.
First we'll start off with a system that originally produced a
paper tape with raised dots and dashes, which were translated after
the fact by an operator. Later on, it became familiar as the
dit-dit-dit-dah-dah sound of a man sitting at a small key, tapping
out messages over telegraph wires. It was invented in 1835 by a
professor of arts and design at New York University.
.-.. . .- .-. -. / .- -... --- ..- - / - .... . /
.-- .-. .. - .. -. --. /
... -.-- ... - . -- / -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . -.. /
-... -.-- / -.. .-. / -- --- --- -.
You'll need to decode that information to understand how to decode
this information.
You may need that information to decode the clues you'll find in
Part 2, here.