ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Jefferson invented a wheel cipher, or Jefferson disk, a mechanical encryption device. He also invented a polygraph and an early photocopying machine.
The 13-floor landmark is an architectural masterwork by Louis Sullivan, an American genius and "father of the skyscraper," his plans reinforced by such brilliant colleagues as his partner, Dankmar Adler,
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Preservationists stopped their appeal process to halt the demolition of the Great Northern Elevator. Demolition of 126-year-old grain elevator will continue.