A teleprinter is, at its heart, an automatic typewriter. It’s electrically controlled and has some smarts to be able to decode an incoming message and has something that will move the keys. These ...

A British museum has been searching for parts of the Lorenz cipher machine, used by the Nazis in World War II to send secret messages. So when sharp-eyed museum volunteers happened upon what appeared ...

The teleprinter of a Lorenz machine used by the Nazis to type messages in plain German that were then encrypted by the machine. You never know what will turn up on eBay. Volunteers from the National ...

You may want to rethink your online shopping habits after learning about a rare find recently made by a museum in the UK. According to The Guardian, a volunteer at the National Museum of Computing ...

This week, we’re taking the wayback machine to 1940 for an informative, fast-paced look at the teleprinter. At the telegram office’s counter, [Mary] recites her well-wishes to the clerk. He fills out ...

This machine has been converted to a Teleprinter from the famous No5 machine, hence no keyboard. Instead are 5 solenoids with linkages to decode the 5 bit code into text. The whole machine is driven ...

The teleprinter part of a Lorenz cipher machine that was purchased by the National Museum of Computing from eBay for 10 GBP (14.6 USD, 13.2 euro). (CHARLES COULTAS / NATIONAL MUSEUM OF COMPUTING / AFP ...

In the dead of night a teleprinter chattered away, a few characters at a time, printing complete rubbish. Was it spirits or something more earthly to blame? Many years ago I was in charge of an ...

SPEAKING at the annual dinner of the Insurance Institute at Birmingham on Jan 22, Sir Kingsley Wood, Postmaster—General, said that the Post Office hopes to introduce in a few months' time a ...