Codebreaking Bombe goes on display

The UK's National Museum of Computing has expanded its exhibits celebrating the UK's wartime code-breakers and the machines used to crack German ciphers. On Saturday it will open a gallery dedicated to the Bombe, which helped speed up the cracking of messages scrambled with the Enigma machine. The Bombe was formerly on display at Bletchley Park next door to the museum. A crowd-funding campaign raised £60,000 in four weeks to move the machine and create its new home. The replica Bombe is a copy of the electro-mechanical machines used in World War II at Bletchley.