Codebreaking Bombe moves to computer museum
Codebreaking Bombe moves to computer museum
23 June 2018
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The Bombe was used to work out Enigma machine settings to help read German communications
The UK's National Museum of Computing has expanded its exhibits celebrating the UK's wartime code-breakers and the machines used to crack German ciphers. On Saturday it will open a gallery dedicated to the Bombe, which helped speed up the cracking of messages scrambled with the Enigma machine. The Bombe was formerly on display at Bletchley Park next door to the museum.A crowd-funding campaign raised £60,000 in four weeks to move the machine and create its new home.Modern machinesThe replica Bombe is a copy of the electro-mechanical machines used in World War II at Bletchley. It was designed to discover the settings used by German Enigma machines to scramble messages, and make them unreadable.
Code-breakers at Bletchley turned to machines to crank through the millions …
23 June 2018
Image copyright
Science Photo Library
Image caption
The Bombe was used to work out Enigma machine settings to help read German communications
The UK's National Museum of Computing has expanded its exhibits celebrating the UK's wartime code-breakers and the machines used to crack German ciphers. On Saturday it will open a gallery dedicated to the Bombe, which helped speed up the cracking of messages scrambled with the Enigma machine. The Bombe was formerly on display at Bletchley Park next door to the museum.A crowd-funding campaign raised £60,000 in four weeks to move the machine and create its new home.Modern machinesThe replica Bombe is a copy of the electro-mechanical machines used in World War II at Bletchley. It was designed to discover the settings used by German Enigma machines to scramble messages, and make them unreadable.
Code-breakers at Bletchley turned to machines to crank through the millions …