At the end of World War II, the Germans ordered all Enigma cipher machines destroyed ... Somewhat surprisingly, rotor-based code wheel technology didn’t stop advancing in 1945, and the Enigma ...

Led by the brilliant Alan Turing, inventor of the computer, the codebreakers of England's cipher-cracking organization ... which is why the wheels of the Enigma machine were designed to move ...

With this fun challenge, brought to you in partnership with the Science Museum Group, you and your child can learn how to make a cipher wheel together and use it to send secret messages to one ...

Hagelin B-21; the beginning of the Hagelin pin wheel machines, superficially resembling the Enigma; developed by Boris Hagelin based on Arvid Gerhard Damm's patented design of the B-18; it has two pin ...

Photo: A four-rotor German Enigma cipher machine made during WW2 ... then scramble it by using three to five notched wheels, or rotors, which displayed different letters of the alphabet.