# Bombe **Domain:** Cryptography / Computing History **Doc Type:** Machine **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Enigma]], [[Alan Turing]], [[Gordon Welchman]], [[Diagonal Board]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Definition The Bombe was an electromechanical cryptanalytic machine used to eliminate impossible Enigma rotor settings by propagating constraints derived from a guessed plaintext crib. ## Bauhaus Architects Context Its operation is accurately understood through contradiction and search, not semantic interpretation or machine self-reference. ## Backlinks - [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] - [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]