William Tutte and Tommy Flowers
27 October 2011, 03:47 AM
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William Tutte and Tommy Flowers
I have just watched a BBC documentary about these two amazing men ; Between them they were responsible for breaking the German codes during WW2.
As a result of their efforts ,it has been speculated that WW2 ended 2 years earlier than it otherwise would have.
Given 10 million lives were lost each year of this great war , it could be said these men saved 20 million lives - Both Allies and Germans.
Some of their work is still subject to the official secrets act.
Neither Tutte or Flowers ( Designer/builder of Colossus the first computer) were ever recognised for their contributions to the war effort.
Although Tutte was made a Fellow of the Royal Society .
It is worth researching these two men .
As a result of their efforts ,it has been speculated that WW2 ended 2 years earlier than it otherwise would have.
Given 10 million lives were lost each year of this great war , it could be said these men saved 20 million lives - Both Allies and Germans.
Some of their work is still subject to the official secrets act.
Neither Tutte or Flowers ( Designer/builder of Colossus the first computer) were ever recognised for their contributions to the war effort.
Although Tutte was made a Fellow of the Royal Society .
It is worth researching these two men .
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I have just watched a BBC documentary about these two amazing men ; Between them they were responsible for breaking the German codes during WW2.
As a result of their efforts ,it has been speculated that WW2 ended 2 years earlier than it otherwise would have.
Given 10 million lives were lost each year of this great war , it could be said these men saved 20 million lives - Both Allies and Germans.
Some of their work is still subject to the official secrets act.
Neither Tutte or Flowers ( Designer/builder of Colossus the first computer) were ever recognised for their contributions to the war effort.
Although Tutte was made a Fellow of the Royal Society .
It is worth researching these two men .
As a result of their efforts ,it has been speculated that WW2 ended 2 years earlier than it otherwise would have.
Given 10 million lives were lost each year of this great war , it could be said these men saved 20 million lives - Both Allies and Germans.
Some of their work is still subject to the official secrets act.
Neither Tutte or Flowers ( Designer/builder of Colossus the first computer) were ever recognised for their contributions to the war effort.
Although Tutte was made a Fellow of the Royal Society .
It is worth researching these two men .
It is part of a series (pretty sure there are 4 of them) BBC 2 is currently running, will be watching the others. Should be part of school history curriculum!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016ltm0
Operation Jericho also worth a watch
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016n2zz
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If you're even slightly geeky, then visit the National Computer Museum you'll also get into Bletchley too which is just as excellent.
27 October 2011, 10:26 AM
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One sad fact was that Tony Sale responsibile for the Colossus rebuild project died recently
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14720180
http://www.tnmoc.org/colossus-rebuild.aspx
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I have just watched a BBC documentary about these two amazing men ; Between them they were responsible for breaking the German codes during WW2.
As a result of their efforts ,it has been speculated that WW2 ended 2 years earlier than it otherwise would have.
Given 10 million lives were lost each year of this great war , it could be said these men saved 20 million lives - Both Allies and Germans.
Some of their work is still subject to the official secrets act.
Neither Tutte or Flowers ( Designer/builder of Colossus the first computer) were ever recognised for their contributions to the war effort.
Although Tutte was made a Fellow of the Royal Society .
It is worth researching these two men .
As a result of their efforts ,it has been speculated that WW2 ended 2 years earlier than it otherwise would have.
Given 10 million lives were lost each year of this great war , it could be said these men saved 20 million lives - Both Allies and Germans.
Some of their work is still subject to the official secrets act.
Neither Tutte or Flowers ( Designer/builder of Colossus the first computer) were ever recognised for their contributions to the war effort.
Although Tutte was made a Fellow of the Royal Society .
It is worth researching these two men .
Brilliant minds (among others) from humble backgrounds who made a huge difference to the war effort.
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I saw a photo of the banks of electronic valves once...bet that was a warm room!
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les you should see the size of the server farm google are building 100km from the arctic circle in norway. uses megawats of electric and the frigid temperatures outside for 8 months of the year to cool it.
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here's the link if you are interested
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/f...ic-circle/4879
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Thats incredible Big S.
I was able to watch the Bletchley recoding last night. Really fascinating. Mrs Leslie used to be a top code breaker once. Explains why she always seems to be a step ahead of me!
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I was able to watch the Bletchley recoding last night. Really fascinating. Mrs Leslie used to be a top code breaker once. Explains why she always seems to be a step ahead of me!
Les
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