German M4 Naval Enigma Machine Papercraft

Posted by Michael James | Friday, March 06, 2009 | | 3 comments »

The Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines that have been used to generate ciphers for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. It was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I. It was used commercially from the early 1920s and was adopted by military and governmental services of a number of countries — most notably by Nazi Germany before and during World War II. A variety of Enigma models were produced, but the German military model, the Wehrmacht Enigma, is the version most commonly discussed-wiki

3 comments

  1. Anonymous // Saturday, 07 March, 2009  

    Fascinating post, will send to my Dad who sometimes writes for Science, Invention and Technology magazine.

    Suzanne Urban

  2. James DeRuvo // Sunday, 08 March, 2009  

    Sadly, the bandwidth cap has been exceeded! It needs mirrors!

  3. Anonymous // Monday, 09 March, 2009  

    Sorry guys, paper-replika will be online again on tuesday with upgraded server, thanks for visiting my site. Hello Michael, I just stop by, all the best - Jules