National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC
Cryptography is the process of translating to or from secret texts. This exhibition illustrates how code and cipher machines protected communications from 1900 to WWII and includes mechanical and electrical models, foreign and domestic. Included in this exhibition on the development of cipher machines are several examples, both foreign and domestic, including the German Enigma machines, among the most famous cipher machines used in WWII.
