Spy Equipment Revealed

Enigma Cipher Machine
c. 1944, Germany

Invented in 1923, the Enigma cipher machine was an electro-mechanical device for coding and deciphering messages during WWII. In 1943 the first computing machine in the world, the Colossus I, was needed to break it.

(Photo courtesy of the International Spy Museum)

	Enigma Cipher Machine c. 1944, Germany Invented in 1923, the Enigma cipher machine was an electro-mechanical device for coding and deciphering messages during WWII. In 1943 the first computing machine in the world, the Colossus I, was needed to break it. (Photo courtesy of the International Spy Museum)
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