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    SPY GADGETS THROUGH TIME

    Oct 31, 2019 1 minute

    400 BCE

    Writing on leather wrapped around a baton called a scytale, Spartan generals trade encrypted messages that can only be read using a rod of the same size.

    1466

    Italian architect and painter Leon Battista Alberti invents one of the first

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