Wrote sensational reports on a variety of serous problems facing the US. Their works were widely published, and widely read, and they motivated people to make reforms.
The people who were at the first continental congress were:
Nathaniel Folsom; John Sullivan; John Adams; Samuel Adams; Thomas Cushing; Robert Treat Paine; Stephen Hopkins; Samuel Ward; Silas Deane; Eliphalet Dyer; Roger Sherman; James Duane; John Jay; Philip Livingston; Isaac Low; Simon Boerum; John Haring; Henry Wisner; William Floyd; John Alsop; Stephen Crane; John De Hart; James Kinsey; William Livingston; Richard Smith; Edward Biddle; John Dickinson; Joseph Galloway; Charles Humphreys; Thomas Mifflin; John Morton; Samuel Rhoads; George Ross; Thomas McKean; George Read; Caesar Rodney; Samuel Chase; Robert Goldsborough; Thomas Johnson; William Paca; Matthew Tilghman; Richard Bland; Benjamin Harrison; Patrick Henry; Richard Henry Lee; Edmund Pendleton; Peyton Randolph; George Washington; Richard Caswell; Joseph Hewes; William Hooper; Christopher Gadsden; Thomas Lynch, Jr.; Henry Middleton; Edward Rutledge; and John Rutledge.
If one of the answers is machines then that is the answer
A code for entering Constantinople