Photograph, Navy Staff at Night School Building, National Cash Register
date: label: date made
content: ca 1943
notes: label: Description
content: During World War II, the Allies successfully decrypted messages that had been enciphered by Axis forces using a cipher machine called the Enigma. This decrypting device was known in Britain and then the United States as the Bombe. This black-and-white photograph shows staff who worked on building the Bombe at NCR in Dayton, Ohio. The civilian to the left of the officer in the first row of the photograph is Joe Desch (1907-1987), who designed and built the first test equipment along with Bob Mumma (about 1906-2003).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Dayton
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Philip J. Bochicchio
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.3110.15
label: catalog number
content: 1989.3110.15
label: nonaccession number
content: 1989.3110
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 cm x 29 cm; 14 3/16 in x 11 7/16 in