The Bombe was a computational device designed by Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park to help decrypt Enigma machine messages. This was one of the inspiratons for his later work studying computation.
Used in Chap. 1: page 4
Links:
bletchleypark.org.uk: Bletchley Park: 6 facts about the Bombe
- tnmoc.org:
National Museum of Computing: The Turing-Welchman Bombe