Alan Turing and the Bombes

Period: 1939–1945

Summary

Alan Turing’s development of the Bombe machines was a critical advancement in the effort to break the German Enigma code during World War II. These electromechanical devices automated the process of finding encryption keys, significantly accelerating decryption efforts at Bletchley Park. The Bombes demonstrated the potential of computational systems and established principles foundational to modern computing.