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Jefferson disk
During 1795, Thomas Jefferson invented a cipher system, the Jefferson disk, using 26 wheels, each with the letters of the alphabet arranged randomly around them. The cipher system did not become well-known, and was reinvented by Commandant Etienne Bazeries, the conqueror of the Great Cipher, a century later.
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