Metadata

Field Value

Title

135-Year Old Code Mystery Highlights Forgotten Era of Meteorology

Abstract

Publication general type

graphic novel

Project Name

[]

Keyword Vocabulary

polar data catalogue

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https://www.polardata.ca/pdcinput/public/keywordlibrary

Theme

Title

Atmosphere

URL

https://canwin-datahub.ad.umanitoba.ca/data/en/group/modelling

Version

1.0

Publisher

Canadian Watershed Information Network

Date Published

2023

DOI

10.1080/01611194.2023.2223562

Authors

Authors 1

Author Name

Chan, Wayne

Type of Name

Personal

Email

ws_chan@umanitoba.ca

Affiliation

Centre for Earth Observation Science - University of Manitoba

ORCID ID

License Name

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Licence Type

Open

CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

Licence Schema Name

SPDX

Licence URL

https://spdx.org/licenses

Awards

Related Resources

Related Resources 1

Related Resource Name

Breaking the Silk Dress cryptogram

Identifier Code

10.1080/01611194.2023.2223562

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DOI

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Online Resource

Type

JournalArticle

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Language

English

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URL

https://canwin-datahub.ad.umanitoba.ca/data/dataset/dd31c5b2-d0de-41d9-a8a8-ce960953a2a2/resource/25a402c0-e444-48dc-b41f-fa764906f512/download/silk_dress_code_decoded.mp4

Name

Breaking the Silk Dress Cryptogram - video

Description

A 17-minute video graphic novel of the solution to the Silk Dress cryptogram. [Note: If the video doesn't start playing automatically, move your mouse over the black window and click on it to start the video.]

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MP4

Resource Category

supplemental

URL

https://canwin-datahub.ad.umanitoba.ca/data/dataset/dd31c5b2-d0de-41d9-a8a8-ce960953a2a2/resource/ed7d67d0-5563-4747-8a32-380fc413fda3/download/silk_dress_article-preprint.pdf

Name

Breaking the Silk Dress Cryptogram - journal article

Description

Link to the preprint. Final version published in [*Cryptologia*](https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2023.2223562) (Aug. 6, 2023). In 2013, an archeological curator bought a Victorian-era silk bustle dress from an antique mall in Maine. When the curator, Sara Rivers-Cofield, examined the dress, she found a hidden pocket that contained mysterious handwritten messages that appeared to be some sort of code. Since then, codebreakers have tried to solve the messages without success. The so-called "Silk Dress cryptogram" became one of the top 50 unsolved codes and ciphers in the world...

Format

PDF

Resource Category

documents

URL

https://commitmentocostumes.blogspot.com/2014/02/bennetts-bronze-bustle.html

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Commitment to Costumes blog

Description

Sara Rivers Cofield's "Commitment to Costumes" blog post about the Silk Dress cryptogram.

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HTML

Resource Category

supplemental

URL

https://canwin-datahub.ad.umanitoba.ca/data/dataset/dd31c5b2-d0de-41d9-a8a8-ce960953a2a2/resource/45ed8d47-9095-4f97-8ff6-30b3850e3966/download/copy-of-bustle_dress_pocket4.mp4

Name

Video of Silk Dress

Description

Video of Sara Rivers Cofield showing the silk bustle dress.

Format

HTML

Resource Category

web_services

URL

https://ciphermysteries.com/2017/05/21/silk-dress-cipher

Name

Cipher Mysteries blog

Description

[Blog post about Silk Dress cryptogram](https://ciphermysteries.com/2017/05/21/silk-dress-cipher) on cryptologist Nick Pelling's Cipher Mysteries website.

Format

HTML

Resource Category

supplemental

URL

https://www.youtube.com/embed/fL31mnk7Ubw?si=MZ5Lyq68cFaQzw_k

Name

Unsolved Codes Talk

Description

Discussion of the Silk Dress cryptogram by cryptologists Klaus Schmeh and Elonka Dunin, as part of a virtual presentation titled "More Famous and Not-So-Famous Unsolved Codes", hosted by the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, UK (April 18, 2021).

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MP4

Resource Category

web_services

URL

https://www.youtube.com/embed/08dJan4bWYo?si=eIEg-SmtPgdgkoRE

Name

Unsolved Ciphers and Cryptograms Iceberg

Description

Explanation of the Silk Dress cryptogram as part of a video that goes through an "iceberg" chart of unsolved codes and ciphers.

Format

MP4

Resource Category

web_services

URL

https://www.noaa.gov/heritage/stories/cryptogram-in-silk-dress-tells-weather-story

Name

NOAA Article - Cryptogram' in a silk dress tells a weather story

Description

December 14, 2023 — Sometimes a dress is just a dress. In this story, a dress becomes a kind of time travel portal, where we get to return very briefly to the Industrial Revolution and learn about the history of weather forecasting on the frontiers of North America in the 1800s.

Format

HTML

Resource Category

supplemental

URL

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/science/earth-science/silk-dress-cryptogram-canadian-researcher-cracks-135-year-old-unsolvable-code?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=the+weather+network

Name

The Weather Network Article - Canadian researcher cracks 135 year old 'unsolvable' code

Description

A secret code hidden in the pocket of a 19th century silk dress was one of the world’s unsolved mysteries. A researcher from Manitoba figured it out

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HTML

Resource Category

supplemental

URL

https://nypost.com/2023/12/15/lifestyle/cryptic-notes-hidden-in-19th-century-silk-dress-reveal-weather-story/

Name

New York Post Article - Cryptic notes found hidden in 19th-century silk dress decoded after 10 years reveal surprising story

Description

Within a secret pocket of a brown silk dress, paper notes containing messages written in code were discovered after being hidden for more than 100 years.

Format

HTML

Resource Category

supplemental

URL

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a46192789/silk-dress-cryptogram-solved/

Name

Popular Mechanics Article - A Woman Hid This Secret Code in Her Silk Dress in 1888—and Codebreakers Just Solved It

Description

For a decade, codebreakers have tried—and failed—to solve the case of the crumpled paper that was found stuffed in a secret pocket under the bustle and inside the seams of a silk dress from the 1880s. Over the years, the mystery even earned its own moniker: The Silk Dress Cryptogram. Now, we have some answers—and they come from unlikely sources: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and a data analyst at the University of Manitoba.

Format

HTML

Resource Category

supplemental