"vernam" - 1 õppematerjal

TheCodeBreakers

hurried through the colonaded lobby of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company at 195 Broadway in downtown Manhattan. He rode the elevator up to the 17th floor, where he worked in the telegraph section of the company's development and research department. This section, composed of some of the brightest engineers in the company, was concentrating on the newest development in telegraphy, the printing telegraph or teletypewriter. Gilbert S. Vernam was—if things were as usual—a little late that morning. He nearly always was, and, his  boss said, "It used to burn me up to see him come sneaking in and slink into his seat." The yearbook of his alma mater, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, had wondered "what would happen to Tech if 'Tau' should accidently get to class on time in the morning." A native of Brooklyn, Vernam was graduated from the Massachusetts college, where he had been president of the Wkeless Association and had