02 April 2009

Turing Bombe lives again, rebuilt by enthusiasts!

For anyone who has heard of the German Enigma cryptographic machine and Bletchley Park, the home of the British code breakers, this will be a piece of history come to life. For those that haven't, you've missed a pretty key part of how the allies put the boots to Uncle Adolph and his delusions of world dominion.

Enthusiasts recreate a Turing Bombe

This is a recreation of one of over 100 computers of this sort that decoded thousands of German Enigma-encoded messages every day. Much like radar (another secret accompanied by the wonderful misdirection campaign that carrots make you see better at night), the computers of Bletchley Park and the work of the code-breakers helped the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Greatest Generation save civilization.

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