D26013. Typex Coding Machine.
D26013. During the dark days of World War II, a major challenge was knowing in advance what the enemy was up to and, at the same, not letting them know what we were up to! The Germans used Enigma and other coding machines with the belief that the coded messages created were unbreakable. Unbeknown to them however, some very clever folk at a top secret location were breaking the Enigma and other coded messages and the Typex machines were amongst the tools they used. The Typex machines, like the German Enigma machines, were coding machines but improvements over Enigma made the messages far more secure and difficult to break. The ‘top secret’ location is no longer a secret and is now a museum open to the public. It’s at Bletchley Park, a country estate around 50 miles north of London code named ‘Station X’ during the war and A visit is highly recommended; more details can be found here: bletchleypark.org.uk/ Monday, 17th October, 2022. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2022.
D26013. Typex Coding Machine.
D26013. During the dark days of World War II, a major challenge was knowing in advance what the enemy was up to and, at the same, not letting them know what we were up to! The Germans used Enigma and other coding machines with the belief that the coded messages created were unbreakable. Unbeknown to them however, some very clever folk at a top secret location were breaking the Enigma and other coded messages and the Typex machines were amongst the tools they used. The Typex machines, like the German Enigma machines, were coding machines but improvements over Enigma made the messages far more secure and difficult to break. The ‘top secret’ location is no longer a secret and is now a museum open to the public. It’s at Bletchley Park, a country estate around 50 miles north of London code named ‘Station X’ during the war and A visit is highly recommended; more details can be found here: bletchleypark.org.uk/ Monday, 17th October, 2022. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2022.