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Thank you gentlemen. That was a great way to start. I will ask our panel number one to join me here on the odium. First of all i would like to say thank you very much to chairman wheeler and to tom for being with us. We are very honored. Were moving onto the Panel Discussion portion of our program. I want to remind everybody that this hearing is being live cast, and viewers are in courage to submit questions via twitter. We also have some cards on your chairs if you have questions that you want to submit. We have a staff member who will be picking up those questions fter each panel. We will al...

Scientific American In the centuries before envelopes, “letterlocking” secured a message’s information Print Computer-generated unfolding animation of a sealed letter from 17th-century Europe. The physical letter itself has never been opened. Credit: Unlocking History Research Group Advertisement In 1697 a legal professional in the French city of Lille wrote to his cousin in the Netherlands to request a relative’s death certificate, possibly in order to finalize an inheritance. He folded and sealed his mundane missive so it would hold together without an envelope and mailed it off to ...

Researchers have finally read an unopened letter that was mailed back in 1697 but was not delivered after developing a way to virtually “unfold” such letters.

A signed, sealed but not delivered letter from 1697 has finally been read with the help of a high-tech scan that looked inside without breaking its seal.