Day: October 30, 2018

Marian Rejewski was responsible for the initial analysis that enabled exploitation of the German ENIGMA cryptographic machine. Without his breakthroughs, which he provided to the French and British in 1939, the U.K. and U.S. may have never been able to exploit ENIGMA.

16 year old Ned Parfett selling newspapers about the Titanic disaster, London, April 1912 (He was killed by a German bomb during World War 1 on October 29th 1918, exactly 100 years ago) [1200×858]