The silk dress, which dates to the mid-1880s, in which the pieces of paper containing the code were found. They were tucked in a hidden pocket, the opening of which was hidden by an overskirt. Sara ...

BISMARCK — Bismarck, Omit, Leafage, Buck, Bank. That was the telegraphic code found on this thin piece of paper, hidden in this silk dress from the 1800s. Wayne Chan decoded the mysterious message ...

A secret code hidden inside a century-old vintage silk dress that had eluded cryptographers for a decade has finally been cracked, throwing some light on the identity of the woman who owned the attire ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A vintage dress purchased at an antique shop a decade ago contained a hidden code that has baffled people ...

An archeologist found a silk dress from the 1800s with a hidden pocket concealing a secret code. A code breaker recently figured out the code was for telegraphed weather reports. Who owned the dress ...

An antique dress bought a decade ago with coded messages dating back from the 19th century was unveiled, revealing it was a U.S. Army Signal Corps weather observation, providing a glimpse into ...

This silk dress actually contained encoded messages that provide a time portal where we learn about the history of weather forecasting on America’s frontiers in the 1880s Figure 1. The Victorian-era ...