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Eventually, Max Newman, a Bletchley mathematician, came up with a way to mechanize the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Drawing heavily on Alan Turing’s concept of the universal machine, Newman designed a machine that was capable of adapting itself to different problems, what we today would call a programmable computer.
Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
By giving banks an incentive to invest in government debt, the United States contrived a means of financing the war.
Roger Lowenstein • America's Bank
David Szondy • Curta calculator: The mechanical marvel born in a Nazi death camp
In that respect, the American consumer boom represented the final flowering of the Connecticut Valley machine tradition of Thomas Blanchard, John Hall, and the great superintendents at the Springfield Armory. The woman who breaks the bobbin on her sewing machine while running up curtains at home and the soldier in the field with a broken gunlock
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Those were not empty words. In 1852 Fillmore’s secretary of state, Daniel Webster, gave speculators carte blanche to sail to the guano-laden Lobos Islands off the coast of northern Peru and scrape them clean, promising naval protection and dispatching a warship for that purpose. It was a bold yet dangerous plan, as Peru claimed sovereignty over the
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
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He can find no way to say what so badly needs saying. Our home has been broken into. Our lives are being endangered. The law allows for all necessary force against unlawful and imminent harm.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
CHAPTER THREE Sea Truck I’m still amazed that Jeremy Fry entrusted me with the task of developing and selling the Sea Truck.
James Dyson • Invention: A Life
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