How WWI codebreakers taught your gas meter to snitch on you
Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 07:31
in Physics & Chemistry
In the depths of night on August 5th 1914 the British Cable Ship Alert took the first significant action of World War I, severing the five German submarine cables that ran through the English Channel. This operation was a major blow, forcing Germany to use radio for international communications for the duration of the war.