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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. The mansion was constructed during the years following 1883 for the financier and politician Herbert Leon in the Victorian Gothic , Tudor and Dutch Baroque ...
Bletchley Park was a World War II codebreaking facility established by the British government on the site of a Victorian manor and is in the British city of Milton Keynes. It has played an important role in the history of computing , with some of the first modern computers being built at the facility.
The museum is located on Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. [2] It opened in 2007 [3] in Block H – the first purpose-built computer centre in the world, having housed six of the ten Colossus computers that were in use at the end of World War II. Block H at Bletchley Park, home of The National Museum of Computing
Bletchley Park's wartime scientists developed Colossus, the first programmable digital computer, to crack the Lorenz cipher that Hitler used to communicate with his generals.
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Derek Taunt, arrived in Bletchley Park in August 1941, worked in Hut 6 (mathematician, later bursar of Jesus College, Cambridge) Telford Taylor, US Army (Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials) Ralph Tester, linguist, head of the Testery and member of a TICOM team (accountant with Unilever) John Thompson, codebreaker [citation needed]
Between 1992 and 2007, Sale and volunteers rebuilt a functioning replica of the Colossus (computer) Mark II which is on display at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. [7] [8] Sale and his wife Margaret had three children and seven grandchildren. Margaret continued as a volunteer guide at the museum for many years after Tony's death.
Patricia Marjorie Bartley, Mrs Brown (1 May 1917, Dacca, British India – 26 February 2021, Ely, Cambridgeshire) was a British codebreaker at Bletchley Park, and a member of British intelligence's diplomatic office in Mayfair, London.