People and Facts from Bletchley Park
1. Who was Alan Turing? Find at least 3 facts about him
Alan Mathison Turing was born on 23 June 1912, Maida Vale, London and died on the 7 June 1954, Wilmslow. He was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist, who cracked the Enigma code. He went to Princeton University (1936–1938) and was engaged to Joan Clarke. Source link
2. Who was Tommy Flowers? Find at least 3 facts about him
Tommy Harold Flowers was born on 25 December 1905, Poplar and died on 28 October 1998, Mill Hill. He was an English engineer, he invented and built the colossus computer (the first programmable electronic computer) he had one child, Kenneth flowers. Source link
3. Who was Gordon Welchman?
William Gordon Welchman was born on 15 June 1906, Fishponds, Bristol and died on 8 October 1985, Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States. He was a British-American mathematician who worked at a secret British code breaking facility, ‘Station X’ at Bletchley Park. He was married to Fannie Hillsmith (1958–1970) and had 3 children Jeremy Nicholas Welchman, Susanna Griffith and Rosamund Welchman. He also had 2 siblings Enid May Welchman and Eric Welchman.Source link
4. What was Enigma and the Bombe?
The Bombe was an electro-mechanical device that replicated the action of several Enigma machines wired together. A standard German Enigma employed, at any one time, a set of three rotors, each of which could be set in any of 26 positions. A Bombe could run two or three jobs simultaneously.Source link. The Enigma machine is an encryption device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic and military communication. It was employed extensively by Nazi Germany during World War II, in all branches of the German military. Source link
5. Why is Bletchley Park important? How many people worked at Bletchley Park during World War II?
It was important because it was where all of the top minds of the UK where and because Alan Turing was working on cracking the enigma code there. Source link. There were 10,000 people working at Bletchley Park during WW2.Source link
6. What was Colossus?
Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used thermionic valves to perform Boolean and counting operations.It had no memory it was a first generation computers and it was released on Mk 1: December 1943; Mk 2: 1 June 1944 the input method was a Paper tape of up to 20,000 × 5-bit characters in a continuous loop.Source link
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