Another Seth! geocache that defies description. The coordinates listed are not the geocache location! They will get you in the general vicinity. Here's the idea: Geocachers regularly use numbers to find obscure places. This time, you're going to track down Obscure Numbers, then you can find the geocache.
First, you need to do some research on the Planimeter. This obscure gadget was improved upon and patented in 1896 by Edward J. Willis. If you don't have a planimeter hanging around the house, it's because a planimeter is used to determine the mean effective pressure of (and horsepower provided by) steam in a cylinder during a stroke of the piston. It determines this by tracing a diagram of the steam chamber. Right. Well, you need to track down Willis' Patent Number.
On a totally unrelated matter, Kyoto is Japan's 3rd largest city and also one of its oldest. It was originally founded as Heian in 794. Its new castle, Nijo Castle, was built in 1603. Your mission is to track down the ISBN Number of the book Kyoto Romance by Teruhide Kato (paperback, 1992).
These two numbers will get you the coordinates of the first of two locations. The Patent Number gets plugged in here (omit the comma and insert the decimal as shown):
W 122° --.---'
The ISBN Number plugs in here (omit the dashes and insert the decimal as shown):
N --.--------°
Note that the latitude is given in decimal degrees so you will need to convert them for use in your GPS.
Okay, now you have the coordinates for the first location. Go there and find two dates written like this: "ABCD-WXYZ". Insert numbers from these dates into the following for the coordinates of the actual geocache:
W 122° AA.CCC
N 47° 32.WZD
You are looking for a plastic box, in a black plastic sleeve. Initial contents are a logbook, plastic Liberty statues, rings, Nintendo cards, a geocachingkids.com key ring, etc. The container is not very big, so bring smaller items to trade. There are also postcards with the logbook, so please take one even if you don't trade.