guilty. Hebern said, “The jury thought so.” Hebern believed his machine was unbreakable and was trying to sell it to the navy. William placed the machine on his desk and thought about it. He stared at the small box for six straight weeks in 1923. He told Elizebeth he was “discouraged to the point of blackout.” Then the solution occurred to him one night when he and Elizebeth were getting dressed for a party: “As I was tying my black tie, it suddenly came to me.” It was the first-ever solution of a wired rotor
