Fragment of bombe
One of the dials from a bombe in Hut 11 at Bletchely Park in Buckinghamshire. Bletchley was the home of codebreakers during World War II, most famously cracking the German Enigma and Lorenz codes. The bombe was a machine that helped sift out code options to make the task of the human codebreakers easier. The bombes were developed by Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman and engineered by Harold Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company in Letchworth. There was a video on how they worked... still don't have a clue. But do have great and renewed admiration for the codebreakers and the Wrens who looked after the bombes
Fragment of bombe
One of the dials from a bombe in Hut 11 at Bletchely Park in Buckinghamshire. Bletchley was the home of codebreakers during World War II, most famously cracking the German Enigma and Lorenz codes. The bombe was a machine that helped sift out code options to make the task of the human codebreakers easier. The bombes were developed by Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman and engineered by Harold Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company in Letchworth. There was a video on how they worked... still don't have a clue. But do have great and renewed admiration for the codebreakers and the Wrens who looked after the bombes