Bletchley Park
About Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. During World War II, the estate housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. The GC&CS team of codebreakers included John Tiltman, Dilwyn Knox, Alan Turing, Harry Golombek, Gordon Welchman, Hugh Alexander, Donald Michie, Bill Tutte and Stuart Milner-Barry.
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Alan Turing, at Bletchley Park, used to chain his cup to a radiator so that no one would steal it. Everyone thinks of this as a kind of a weird, eccentric thing. But a few years ago they went around Bletchley Park and they were draining the lake to try and find some Enigma machines, and when they drained the lake they found a load of cups in there.
from No Such Thing As A Somersaulting Long Jumper, 2015-07-24 at 00:20:36 · read transcript
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She had just had all these fleas around and she worked out the life cycle of the flea and then she worked out that it was controlled by the sex hormone of rabbits which would let it finish its life cycle and that's where the mixomatosis came from in the rabbits. She was amazing. She worked in the Enigma Projects at Bletchley Park during the war. She had a lab in Plymouth with all of her fleas and stuff and it got bombed and she lost seven years of work.
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At Bletchley Park, which is this country estate in England, the British government gathers together hundreds of hundreds of code crackers and administrators and people who set to work, including famously Alan Turing but thousands of people who do a lot of variety of.
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Because Polish intelligence had just cracked Enigma just before the war and handed part of the secret a big part of it to British intelligence So at Bletchley Park, which is this country estate in England the British government gathers together Hundreds and hundreds of code crackers and administrators and people who set to work including famously Alan Turing But Variety of stuff right famous chess players or people who agree that solving Crosswalk is an odd collection. Everyone sort of piles into Bletchley Park and starts solving codes and cracking codes, and it goes on until the war ends, and it's amazingly successful.
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I'm gonna have to move us on to the next fact, but if you have anything more, go for it. Just one thing, like it's quite famous that Turing used to chain his tea cup to a radiator. Alan Turing. Alan Turing, yeah, so the great computer scientist, during, in Bletchley Park, he used to chain his cup to a radiator so that no one would steal it. Not like to mess with his tea cup or anything, like Alfred Hitchcock torturing his tea cups. Cool.
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