TheCodeBreakers
Three years later, while Damm was in Paris, young Hagelin learned
that the Swedish military was considering buying the Enigma. He
simplified one of the Damm mechanisms. The Swedish Army liked it,
and, in 1926, placed a larger order.
On the verge of success, Damm, early in 1927, died. Aktiebolaget
Cryptograph, which was in poor financial shape but which had a big
order in its pocket, was purchased at a good price by the Hagelin
interests and reorganized as Aktiebolaget Cryptoteknik, 14 Luntmakare-
gatan, Stockholm. Boris Hagelin ran the firm. He saw that printing
cipher machines were faster, more accurate, and more economical in
terms of manpower than indicating mechanisms like the Enigma, which
lit bulbs to indicate plain- or ciphertext letters. To the army machine he
added a printing mechanism. The whole apparatus weighed 37 pounds,
operated at 200 characters a minute, and could be carried inside a case
about the size of an attaché case.
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