Arthur Scherbius

Technology

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• The section now places a concrete patent date (23 February 1918) and context for Scherbius’s work on rotor-based encryption, expanding the timeline of the Enigma’s development.

Replace “His first design of the Enigma was called Model A and was.” with “During World War I Scherbius became familiar with the challenges of encrypting radio transmissions a field that became a new area of activity for him As early as 23 February 1918 he filed his first patent for an encryption machine based on the rotor principle.”.

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