Puzzle Box 3

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boazer

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I think GS is more likely George Stibitz -- the father of the modern digital computer

was thinkin that could be another possible answer too,

George R. Stibitz

Born Apr 30 1904 - Died Jan 31 1995

Complex Computer

Digital Computer

Patent Number(s) 2,668,661

Inducted 1983

George R. Stibitz is internationally recognized as the father of the modern digital computer. Stibitz's interest in computers arose from an assignment in 1937 to study magneto-mechanics of telephone relays; he turned his attention to the binary circuits controlled by the relays, to the arithmetic operations expressible in binary form, and, in November 1937, to the construction of a two-digit binary adder. The next year, with the help of S.B. Williams of Bell Labs, he developed a full-scale calculator for complex arithmetic. This computer was operational late in 1939 and was demonstrated in 1940 by remote control between Hanover, New Hampshire, and New York. Several binary computers of greater sophistication followed. In these were introduced the excess 3 code, floating decimal arithmetic, self-checking circuits, jump program instructions, taped programs and 'table-hunting' subcomputers.

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confusio

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This is interesting to me...look at the picture in the mural and then look at the first few pictures at this link:

http://community.webshots.com/album/188300547wpVzDE

Here is Watt's engine in 1774:

post-195618-1169347985_thumb.jpg

Still the clue may be valid, the image background is very irregular and cloudy but it looks like that

around that particular piece they tried to make the steam more noticeable.

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kindler

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I think the collection plate page on vanishingpointwiki has an error...

What did the tomb white box look like? On that page it is listed as a

straight vertical line... to me it looked like the middle left piece of the

grapple (with the bottom of the circle part at top and the diagonal taper.

Anyone agree?

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confusio

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This is interesting to me...look at the picture in the mural and then look at the first few pictures at this link:

http://community.webshots.com/album/188300547wpVzDE

Looking at the pictures the Wachs engine looks very very close to what is shown in the

picture but who invented it ?

May be somebody messed up Watts with Wachs ?

Hmmmmm

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VirtuconDG

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It seems that this time the puzzles contain large "useless" portions:

TOMB - once the images are determined to be yoyo tricks the rest of the entire puzzle provides no extra information.

COMPOSERS - the list of composers doesn't help at all in determining the answer. In fact, it seems that the music is also useless, other than to count the notes.

DISCO - once the A side of the record was shown in Toronto the answer could be found without looking at the picture book (with trial and error, of course).

It looks to me that the designers are starting to add "expensive" dead-ends into these puzzles.

Comments?

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bekuletz

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It seems that this time the puzzles contain large "useless" portions:

TOMB - once the images are determined to be yoyo tricks the rest of the entire puzzle provides no extra information.

COMPOSERS - the list of composers doesn't help at all in determining the answer. In fact, it seems that the music is also useless, other than to count the notes.

DISCO - once the A side of the record was shown in Toronto the answer could be found without looking at the picture book (with trial and error, of course).

It looks to me that the designers are starting to add "expensive" dead-ends into these puzzles.

Comments?

...maybe they ar trying to "train us" to see the "real" information :p

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confusio

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I think the collection plate page on vanishingpointwiki has an error...

What did the tomb white box look like? On that page it is listed as a

straight vertical line... to me it looked like the middle left piece of the

grapple (with the bottom of the circle part at top and the diagonal taper.

Anyone agree?

This is what I see in the decompiler ...

post-195618-1169348971.jpg

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Eric Veteran

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I think the collection plate page on vanishingpointwiki has an error...

What did the tomb white box look like? On that page it is listed as a

straight vertical line... to me it looked like the middle left piece of the

grapple (with the bottom of the circle part at top and the diagonal taper.

Anyone agree?

If you click the link for the Tomb listing it shows an actual picture of the puzzle indicating the box. It looks like a vertical line on the right side of the box to me...

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ZuniTribal

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I think the collection plate page on vanishingpointwiki has an error...

What did the tomb white box look like? On that page it is listed as a

straight vertical line... to me it looked like the middle left piece of the

grapple (with the bottom of the circle part at top and the diagonal taper.

Anyone agree?

this is what i got... near straight line but on a slight angle. (attached)

post-196767-1169349572.jpg

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