A team of divers found this rusted—but still recognizable—Enigma cipher machine at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The Nazis used the device to encode secret military messages during WWII. World ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Edward Hebern of California designed ...

If you fancy owning a fantastic piece of World War II history, you might be interested to know a version of the three-rotor Enigma encoder machines, which were used by the German military to encrypt ...

Divers scouring the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled on the rarest of finds: an Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis to encode secret messages during World War II. The ...

Someone in Romania thought he’d made a fair amount of money when he sold an old typewriter for C$148 at a flea market. He was wrong. The “typewriter” was, in fact, a German Wehrmacht Enigma I, a ...

Someone in Romania thought he’d made a fair amount of money when he sold an old typewriter for 100 euros at a flea market. He was wrong. An employee of an auction house presses a key of a working ...