Portable Enigma machine

This is one of a number of code machines on display at Bletchley Park.

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Bletchley Park, Bygone Era, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire

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Huts 3, 6, and 1 at Bletchley Park

These were where enigma decrypting was carried on during the early part of the second world war.

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Colossus rebuild at Bletchley Park

This is a reproduction of the 'Colossus' computer, an impressive bit of 1940's high-tech built to decrypt the codes produced on the german 'Geheimschreiber' encoding teleprinter.

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Bletchley Park, Bygone Era, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire

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'Bombe' decoding machine, Bletchley Park.

The first versions of these were invented by the Poles in the 1930's to decrypt enigma codes. Seeing (and hearing) one of these later models operating is a really quite impressive.

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Block 'B', Bletchley Park

This is now an extensive museum of computing and codebreaking

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Bletchley Park, Buildings and Structures, River Scenes, Flora, Trees and Woodlands, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire

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