The machine was an early attempt to automate code-cracking and, due to its complexity, was named after the illustrator W Heath Robinson. Phil Hayes, of the museum, said the work was "quite an ...

A replica code-breaking computer called a Bombe was used to decipher a message scrambled by an Enigma machine. Held at the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC), the event honoured Polish help with ...

However, cryptanalysis – the art of deciphering encoded messages – took on a new importance during WW2 as British ... detail how the Enigma machine works and how its codes were broken by ...

Alan Turing was an English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer ... the electronic computer built at Bletchley Park during WW2, and, later, the Automatic Computing Engine.