Have you ever wondered how the wheel cipher worked, who made it, and how has it helped people? Thomas Jefferson was an inventor and a president of the United
States. His invention of the wheel cipher helped translate hidden words, improve spy work, and it helped soldiers receive plans in letters secretly without the enemy knowing what it meant. The effectiveness of the word cipher was due to Thomas
Jefferson’s desire to learn, his creativity in problem solving, and his desire to help the patriots in the Revolutionary War.
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 in Shadwell,Virginia. Jefferson’s very first memory was when his father’s slave took him on a fifty mile horseback ride to the Virginia wilderness. When Jefferson