File:OMI-cryptograph.jpg

OMI cryptograph

Source: David Kahn's The Codebreakers, 1967, who credits "Ottico Meccanica Italiana, Rome"

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3. The artifact depicted is an historical cipher machine which is no longer in production or for sale.
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