Tributes have been paid to a female code breaker who helped Alan Turing reveal the Nazi war machine's encrypted secrets during the Second World War after she died aged 98. Mary Ratcliffe worked at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A SECRET codebreaker that has remained hidden for the past 60 years began turning again in a demonstration of how the Second World War was brought to a decisive end. Turing Bombe machines cracked ...

An original Enigma machine will be in use at the event at Cheltenham Town Hall An original World War II Enigma machine is to be used to encrypt messages that will be decoded at Bletchley Park, as part ...

It looks rather like a telephone exchange constructed from a giant Meccano set by a mad scientist - which in a curious kind of way is exactly what the Turing Bombe is. And in 1944, it was in the care ...

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 Imitation Game, the biopic of the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing who helped to crack the Enigma code is finally out in cinemas today, and in conjunction with the film, a new exhibition of the ...

It is fitting that the greatest code-breaker of World War Two remains a riddle a hundred years after his birth. Alan Turing, the brilliant, maverick mathematician, widely considered to be the father ...