Introduction
You've all heard of Freud, Einstein, the Wright Brothers. But have
you heard of William Shockley or Francis Crick?
This puzzle cache should introduce you to some truly amazing
minds that you may have never heard of before, or have long since
forgotten. The point of this cache is to give you something to do
at home before heading out into the now cooler weather to get your
caching fix!
The Cache
The coordinates listed used to be for the parking area, but due to
recent construction, you'll want to use the parking coordinates
listed in the 'additional waypoints' section. To obtain the actual
coordinates of the cache, you'll need to determine the identities
of three people who have, in some way, shape or form, changed the
face of our world today. The coordinates for the cache are:
N42 09.ABC W 72 20.DEF
To obtain the missing numbers, go to the following webpages:
http://geocaching.the-whites.org/xxxxx.html - fill in the xxxxx
with the last name (all lower case) of the people you discover
below. (e.g. if the person's name is Albert Einstein, you would
goto http://geocaching.the-whites.org/einstein.html)
Who am I #1:
I was born in 1881 and served in the London Scottish Regiment
from 1900 to 1914. In 1928, while continuing my work on the
influenza virus, I observed that mold had developed accidently on a
staphylococcus culture that I was working on and that the mold had
created a bacteria-free circle around itself. I eventually
determined that the substance that inhibited the bacteria growth
was penicillin.
In 1945 I won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. I died
in 1955 and my body is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. Who Am
I?
Who Am I #2:
I was born in London in 1912. In 1937, I penned a paper
outlining a machine that was essentially the famous relative of the
modern computer. In 1938 I was recruited to serve at the Government
Code and Cypher School, located in a victorian mansion called
Bletchley Park. I was a major part of the team that created the
Bombe - a computer like machine that was used to decrypt Nazi codes
in World War II (and made the great cache, Mercury
Rising possible) In 1954, I committed suicide by eating an
apple laced with cyanide. Who am I?
Who Am I #3:
I was born in Utah in 1906. When I was 12 I built an electric
motor and my family's first washing machine. At 14, I came up with
the idea for modern television. In 1927, I used my 'Image
Dissector' to send the first all-electronic television picture ever
transmitted. In 1934, the U.S. patent office ruled in my favor,
forcing RCA pay royalties for manufacturing television sets. Called
by some "The Genius of Green Street", I died in 1971. Who Am
I?
Notes
Cache contents include some 'science' stuff - wireless router,
16MB SD card, 8MB Smart Media card & reader, chemistry beaker
mug, Dosido CITO canister, log book, pen/pencil & other
assorted goodies.
I'd be interested in knowing whether you knew these people
before you completed this cache!
Note: access cache area from Shearer Street