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fivemackYesterday was Becky's birthday; usually this is celebrated with something disproportionately energetic in a forest near Thetford, but this year we went here:
and saw things like
The splendid bit of brass here is the device for automatically oiling the worm-gear which transfers rotation from the main drive-shafts to one of the twelve time-multiplexed sets of Enigma rotors in a bombe; a single bombe wardrobe contains thirty-six of these hollow brass pentapodes, and by the end of the war Dollis Hill was producing six bombes a week.
and saw things like
The splendid bit of brass here is the device for automatically oiling the worm-gear which transfers rotation from the main drive-shafts to one of the twelve time-multiplexed sets of Enigma rotors in a bombe; a single bombe wardrobe contains thirty-six of these hollow brass pentapodes, and by the end of the war Dollis Hill was producing six bombes a week.
