Alan Turing, The Bombe, Gordon Welchman, Tommy Flowers, and 3 others
Overview
Alan Turing, The Bombe, Gordon Welchman, Tommy Flowers, and 3 others is recorded as Commemorative plaque in England City Of Milton Keynes. This brown commemorative plaque records: IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing Code-breaking at Bletchley Park during World War II, 1939-45. On this site during the 1939-45 World War, 12,000 men and women broke the German Lorenz and Enigma ciphers, as well as Japanese and Italian codes and ciphers.
Why it was made
The saved account records: This brown commemorative plaque records: IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing Code-breaking at Bletchley Park during World War II, 1939-45.
People and events
The saved account records: On this site during the 1939-45 World War, 12,000 men and women broke the German Lorenz and Enigma ciphers, as well as Japanese and Italian codes and ciphers.
How it worked
The saved account records: They used innovative mathematical analysis and were assisted by two computing machines developed here by teams led by Alan Turing: the electro-mathematical Bombe developed with Gordon Welchman, and the electronic Colossus designed by Tommy Flowers.
What remains
The saved account records: These achievements greatly shortened the war, thereby saving countless lives.
Why it mattered
Alan Turing, The Bombe, Gordon Welchman, Tommy Flowers, and 3 others matters because its inscription ties a person, group, event or old local practice to this exact place. The source records: IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing Code-breaking at Bletchley Park during World War II, 1939-45. On this site during the 1939-45 World War, 12,000 men and women broke the German Lorenz and Enigma ciphers, as well as Japanese and Italian codes and ciphers. They used innovative mathematical analysis and were assisted by two computing machines developed here by teams led by Alan Turing: the electro-mathematical Bombe developed with Gordon Welchman, and the electronic Colossus designed by Tommy Flowers. These… The importance lies in the life remembered here, not in the plaque as a piece of metal.
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