Museum volunteers were perusing eBay when they happened upon a Lorenz teleprinter used by the Nazis to transmit encrypted messages. It was labeled a telegram machine and sold for just $14.

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… ...

BBC - A History of the World - Object : BLICKENSDERFER TELEPRINTER No 5, 1890This machine has been converted to a Teleprinter from the famous No5 machine, hence no keyboard. Instead are 5 ...

l was a Teleprinter operator on B Watch where we sent out the orders for the Bombing raids and received all the reports back. We were located down in the bowels of the earth under a Building, it ...

Historic Nazi Code Machine Sold on eBay for $15 The "teleprinter" for the Lorenz machine was used to create encrypted messages from Hitler to his generals in the field.

While unquestionably old-fashioned, a teleprinter in use may look somewhat familiar to the texters and instant messengers of today. The device allowed people to transmit printed messages to each ...

The UK’s National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park certainly did: It spotted a Nazi teleprinter used during the war for sale on the site and bought it for just $15.