Enigma Machine

This is the second part of our overview of the 2021 auction year – a year where investors channeled more of their wealth into “investments of passion” than ever before. It covers the 150 science, sci-fi and technology artifacts that sold for more than $100,000

A file of 148 documents belonging to Alan Turing​ including correspondence, official letters, and a handwritten draft of a BBC radio program on artificial intelligence has been discovered in a filing cabinet at the University of Manchester.

One of the rarest surviving Enigma cipher machines has sold at auction for a record price of US$463,500. The fully operational Enigma M4 was made to send secret messages to the German U-boat packs at the height of WWII.

​Bonhams Auction House in the UK will be offering for sale a very rare four-rotor 1944 M4 Enigma machine among a range of other scientific, technological, and automated musical instruments from across the centuries

An Enigma machine, used by Germany to send encrpted communications during World War II, has been sold at auction in London. The machine, which was constructed in 1943, is one of few that survived the conflict intact, as the German military was given orders to destroy the machines as it retreated.

Google and the Bletchley Park Trust have announced a fundraising scheme aimed at restoring Block C, a building used to index every scrap of intelligence gathered and decoded by the Park's codebreakers during World War 2.

Gizmag delves into the history of Bletchley Park, discovers some of its secrets, looks at the work of some of its top secret operatives and meets a few of those currently trying to ensure its future

February 5, 2005 One the most significant machines in the history of computing, not to mention the world of espionage and counter-intelligence, the German Arm