Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/M-209

M-209

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Original – M-209 cipher machine. An intermediate gear unit (center) meshes with gears adjoining each key wheel. Visible to the left of the image are the paper tape and typewheel that print out messages and ciphertext.

Reason

High EV, good composition that focuses on the interesting details, intriguing to learn more about the subject. Good quality.

Articles in which this image appears

M-209

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Machinery

Creator

Rama

• Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 19:54, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
• Support -- Colin°^Talk 20:30, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
• Support -- Godot13 (talk) 21:21, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
• Question - What was cropped out? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:33, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
  • Nothing important actually. You can see in the article, in photos like this. Tomer T (talk) 17:29, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
    • So, essentially, the box it came in. Okay, support. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:41, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Godhulii 1985 (talk) 06:47, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
• Support Good EV- Cool subject --AdmrBoltz 16:30, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:M209B cypher machine rotors-IMG 0557.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:01, 25 January 2014 (UTC)