Veteran Bombe operator Ruth Bourne unveiled an Enigma cipher machine, the latest addition to the Turing-Welchman Bombe Gallery at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC), in celebration of the first ...
The rows of silver dials and tangle of scarlet wires look more like a telephone exchange. But this is the inside of the Turing Bombe, the part-electronic, part-mechanical code-breaking machine and ...
Alan Turing oversaw the development of the Bombe machine, used to crack the German Enigma code The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) has raised £60,000 in four weeks to house a replica World War ...
Women codebreakers used to hang their underwear up to dry at night on the huge Bombe machines at Bletchley Park, which were designed by Alan Turing to decrypt Enigma messages ©Crown. Reproduced by ...
Computer historians have staged a re-enactment of World War Two code-cracking at Bletchley Park. A replica code-breaking computer called a Bombe was used to decipher a message scrambled by an Enigma ...
A codebreaking machine which helped decode top secret Nazi communications is to go back into service again. The Turing-Welchman Bombe was an electro-mechanical device designed by Alan Turing and ...
A World War Two codebreaking machine and its Royal Navy operators have been commemorated in wool. Yarn bomber Clare Reeves, who works at Bletchley Park's learning centre, crocheted and knitted the ...
Tributes have been paid to Second World War Bletchley Park codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who has died at the age of 99. Ms Bourne, who grew up in Birmingham but lived High Barnet in north London, worked as ...
Margaret Betts, brilliant young Bombe machine operator who supported Bletchley codebreaking – obituary Wrens like Margaret had to be on their feet for most of the shift and it was humdrum work, she ...