Crossword puzzles, Bombes, Colossus and the birth of modern computing
John McCormick
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- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
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- Hobby
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- Paid: 75
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- Science
- Updated:
- 14th April 2022
Many of us have heard about Bletchley Park, Enigma, Alan Turing and the vital work done there to shorten the Second World War. But much less is known about Dilly Knox and his "gels", a bunch of Polish mathematicians from the University of Poznam, and a London Post Office engineer called Tommy Flowers, and the vital role that they all played.
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I've recently retired and one of the things I'm looking forward to is to spend more time speaking and telling stories. I regularly give talks in my local village in the Cotswolds, the fabulous Hook Norton. These talks have ranged from the history of Bletchley Park to the Apollo space programme, to the history of flight to the story of how they solved how to measure Longitude. I'm happy to give these talks to other groups, or to research and then speak on a topic of interest to groups.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by John McCormick
- The Race to the moon - The US manned lunar exploration programme
- The Wright Brothers to Concorde in 60 years. Crikey!
- Longitude - The Quest for east and west
- Are computers really that smart? Or do we just make them look smart?
- Nothing - why zero is so important in Mathematics
- Wall Paintings - a picture really is worth a thousand words
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