'BOMBE-Rebuild' article & photos in Mail on Sunday

29th March 2009

The Wider View :
Nazi codebreaker which shortened the Second World War by two years
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By Mail On Sunday Reporter

The rows of silver dials and tangle of scarlet wires look more like a 
telephone exchange.

But this is the inside of the Turing Bombe, the part-electronic, 
part-mechanical code-breaking machine and forerunner of the modern 
computer, which cracked 3,000 messages a day sent on Nazi Enigma machines 
during the Second World War.

There were 210 such bookcase-like Bombes that gave Britain advance warning 
of Hitler's plans and shortened the conflict by two years..../snip/


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1165535/
The-Wider-View-Nazi-codebreaker-shortened-Second-World-War-years.html

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