TheCodeBreakers
Hebern deserved better. His story, tragic,
unjust, and pathetic, does his country no honor.
Three others independently invented the rotor during the immediate
post-World War I years. A Dutch engineer, Hugo Alexander Koch, 49,
viewed the system most comprehensively, pointing out in his patent that
steel wires on pulleys, levers, rays of light, or air, water, or oil flowing
through tubes could transmit the enciphering impulse as well as
electricity. A German, Arthur Scherbius, produced a machine called the
Enigma. It failed commercially during the 1920s but became the
standard cipher machine for all three armed forces when Hitler rearmed
Germany in the 1930s. A Swedish inventor, Arvid Gerhard Damm,
patented a cumbersome mechanism that seems never to have been built.
The company that he founded likewise had at first no commercial
success. But a young man, son of one of the investors in the firm,
changed all that.
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