Dr Grime (right) explaining the intricacies of the enigma machine to students at the school.
SECRET coded messages probably would have been sent during battles and wars to pass information without being found out.
Mathematician and public speaker Dr James Grime says that up until the turn of the 20th century, coded messages were symbols that matched other alphabets or words.
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