Classical Cipher Contraptions

References & Further Reading

Information from the following sources was used for this section.


Cryptograph (coding and decoding machine) by Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1843-1875 – Science Museum

Wheatstone Cryptograph – Crypto Machines pages

Several Machine Ciphers and Methods for their Solutions (1918) – Friedman, William F., Riverbank publications No 20

The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone (1879) – Wheatstone, Charles, collected and published by The Physical Society of London

A Charles Wheatstone Cryptograph – Bonhams

The Mystery of Colonel Decius Wadsworth’s Cipher Device (1982) – Kruh, Louis (Cryptologia, 6:3)