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Enigma machine explained
World War II saw wide use of codes and ciphers, from substitution ciphers to the...
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Bombe machine
Detail of rotating (top) drums on a rebuilt Bombe machine, a code-breaking machine,...
Ted Coles
Marian Rejewski
Marian Rejewski was a Polish cryptologist whose work during the 1930s laid the foundation...
National Security Agency/Central Security Service
Bletchley Park
The British government established a code-breaking effort, known as Ultra, at Bletchley...
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Alan Turing
British mathematician Alan Turing, c. 1930s. Turing did the earliest work on AI,...
© Fine Art Images—Heritage Images/age fotostock
women working at Bletchley Park during World War II
Women at work in the intercept control room of Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, 1943.
Science Museum—Science & Society Picture Library/SuperStock
an American-made version of Turing's Bombe
An American-made version of the Bombe, a machine developed in Britain for decrypting...
National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (070918-F-1234S-006)
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