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Photograph of a row of Turing Bombes at Bletchley Park
1944
Museum for Communication Frankfurt, Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The Turing Bombe tried out all of the Enigma's settings at 60 rotations per minute. Theoretically, a bombe would need a whole day to find the Enigma code. However, the British only needed 2 hours, as they used more than 200 bombes. On peak days, 18,000 messages were decrypted.
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- Title: Photograph of a row of Turing Bombes at Bletchley Park
- Date Created: 1944
- Location Created: Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Großbritannien
- Rights: © Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation
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