Lifting the lid of an Enigma, a German operator saw what might on first glance seem like two typewriters squished together. One set of keys, closest to the operator, was the actual keyboard to be ...

He even re-created the Enigma font to ensure that his printed rotor wheels would look right–though in doing so he discovered that the original machine used one typeface for the keyboard ...

His first Enigma machine was designed closely after ... illuminated from behind. For the keyboard, he again designed a custom PCB to connect all the switches. However, he encountered an unexpected ...

(The model with an A-Z keyboard, shown in several books on the Enigma, is a Polish-French replica, not an actual Enigma machine.) It measured about 13.5" x 11" x 6", and weighed about 26 lbs.

The basic design of the original German military Enigma machine includes a keyboard; a set of rotating wheel disks called rotors, which each contained the letters of the alphabet; a plugboard ...

The devices consisted of a keyboard and a series of rotors that did the encoding. The rotors substituted different letters for the ones typed in; different Enigma machines used between three and ...

The Nazis set their codes on the Enigma's alphabetic keyboard: "And each time you press it, the light lights up and tells you what to write down as your ciphered text," said Worpole. The code was ...

The Enigma protocol was based on a mechanism that ... with each letter triggering another one to light up on a different keyboard. The new text made of random lit-up characters could be typed ...