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September 12, 2006Bletchley Park Recreates Turing BombeFrom the Telegraph:
The last time that the rattle of the Turing Bombe was heard, it was the greatest secret of the British Empire.
Yesterday, it was a press event. With a rumble that turned into a roar, a sound not heard at Bletchley Park for more than half a century, the machine that was at the heart of Britain's wartime code-breaking triumph began to work again. The operation of the bombe was likened by the men and, mostly, women who worked on it to a vast collection of knitting needles, but its sound was also the first hint of the computerised world in which we now live. Yesterday, a fully-functioning recreation of the bombe was switched on for the first time, by re-enactors in period dress, bringing back to life the great-great uncle of the PC. |
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