Sentence examples for electromechanical machine from inspiring English sources

"Aiken had built an electromechanical machine in the early forties.

Within weeks of arriving at Bletchley Park, Turing had invented an electromechanical machine called the Bombe that could break any Enigma-coded message.

*NB: For those readers uncertain what I've been writing about, here's Wikipedia's helpful description: "A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer's type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions on to the paper".

He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bombe method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine.

Next to them is a version of the hulking electromechanical machines the Allies used to crack the Enigma codes.

"Certain aspects of technology follow amazingly predictable trajectories," he said, and showed a graph of computing power starting with the first electromechanical machines more than a century ago.

But he did not operate in isolation, collaborating with Gordon Welchman on the design of the electromechanical machines used to crack the code.

Shrinking these electromechanical machines down to the nanoscale would enable new devices, such as extremely sensitive chemical sensors, incredibly precise accelerometers, and super-fast integrated circuit switches.

From very early in the war the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) was successfully deciphering German radio communications encoded by means of the Enigma system, and by early 1942 about 39,000 intercepted messages were being decoded each month, thanks to electromechanical machines known as 'bombes'bombes

Finding reliable cribs was a critical task for Hut 6, as Enigma was broken primarily with the aid of "bombes", large electromechanical machines which automatically searched for parts of the correct settings.

The expanding field of MEMs (micro-electromechanical machines), which is developing tiny machines to act as everything from microphones to miniature rockets, is also bumping up against the nanoworld and routinely making working parts as small as a few hundred nanometers.