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In the 1920's the Germans invented a code machine called the Enigma Machine.The number of possibilities of letters is 26! Which is 26x25x24x23 and so on, the answer is a lot! It was in May 1940 when the British, France and Polish broke the cipher of the machine. To do this they had to invent a computer, called The Bombe, that was the the size of a room to crack the code. The Germans only found out after the war was over.

The Enigma machine had a printer which printed the 26 letters on a paper ribbon. These numbers were usually printed lengthways.

__Arthur Scherbius__

====The Enigma machine was invented by a German engineer in electricity, Arthur Scherbius. The German military used the Enigma machine to communicate with a code, however the British found out and were able to track down what the Germans were doing. Sadly, Arthur died in a accident with a horse in 1929.====


 * Did you know?**


 * The word Enigma is the Greek word for riddle.
 * Enigma machines looked like a typewriter in a wooden case.
 * Typing the same letter twice does not illuminate the same letter on the Lampboard.
 * The Bombe weighed approximately one ton.

This is a picture of the Enigma Machine at the Imperial War Museum.