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The coding machines were one of Germany's proudest inventions during WW2, and are still recognised as a technological wonder of its time. However, as with the British invention of radar being captured at Dunkirk, so was a device captured early on in the war by a British tourist in Germany, who mistook it for a sweet dispenser and who struggled to make it produce a gob-stopper. With the help of some Polish people, British mathematicians cracked the machine, only to find that there were no gob-stoppers inside, but instead a large collection of enigma tablets.

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  • Enigma machines
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  • The coding machines were one of Germany's proudest inventions during WW2, and are still recognised as a technological wonder of its time. However, as with the British invention of radar being captured at Dunkirk, so was a device captured early on in the war by a British tourist in Germany, who mistook it for a sweet dispenser and who struggled to make it produce a gob-stopper. With the help of some Polish people, British mathematicians cracked the machine, only to find that there were no gob-stoppers inside, but instead a large collection of enigma tablets.
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  • The coding machines were one of Germany's proudest inventions during WW2, and are still recognised as a technological wonder of its time. However, as with the British invention of radar being captured at Dunkirk, so was a device captured early on in the war by a British tourist in Germany, who mistook it for a sweet dispenser and who struggled to make it produce a gob-stopper. With the help of some Polish people, British mathematicians cracked the machine, only to find that there were no gob-stoppers inside, but instead a large collection of enigma tablets.
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