Jefferson disk cipher

To fully understand the awesome device got to the wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_disk page I will try to explain it here to the best of my abillity.


President Thomas Jefferson is famous for being the person who wrote the declaration of independence, a founding father, and a politician. Well it turns out he was actually an inventor and mathematician(who knew right!).
A while back I visited the National cytological museum. For those who don’t know it is a relatively small museum next to the NSA headquarters buildings. It is about the history of cypher and encryption from the revolutionary war to around the cold war. One of the exhibits in the revolutionary war and civil war section was about this device. This is where I got the inspiration from.
What really impresses me about this device is that the concept is so simple yet deciphering it is so hard if not close too impossible. The way it works is you turn the disks so that they say on one line the message you