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Saturday 24 November 2012
- open end
At the event of the 55th anniversary of the Faculty of Science of
the Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands), an open day was
held on Saturday 24 November 2012. At this event, Crypto Museum was
present with a nice collection of historical cipher equipment, ranging
from WW-II to the present day. Highlight of the exhibition was
a WWII 3-wheel Enigma machine.
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For this event, five glass display cabinets were installed on the 2nd
floor of the building, the home of the Computing Science
Department. The image on the right shows Marc Simons and Paul Reuvers
after finishing the installation of the exhibits. The Enigma machine
is just visible in the high display, together with some wheels.
Also on display was an extremely rare
Russian Fialka M-125 cipher machine,
built in the 1950s as an improved version of the Enigma.
The Fialka was used for many years during the Cold War, and is still
in service is some countries (Cuba).
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In the other cases are manual cipher devices,
such as slide rulers and cipher discs, a collection of mechanical
Hagelin cipher machines,
crypto telephones and equipment
developed by Dutch Manufacturer
Philips Crypto.
The event was visited by a lot of people, and the mini-exhibition
attracted, of course, a lot of attention. For many elderly visitors
it truely was a deja-vu.
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Because of the success of the exhibition, Crypto Museum and
Radboud University have decided to keep the exhibition open
for an undetermined period of time. All machines, except for the
Enigma machine, will remain on display at the Computing Science
Department of the Faculty of Science for at least the next few months.
The exhibition will be refreshed regularly (see below).
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