Great British Inventions

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Hovercraft ....

So!  No Navy lark fans?

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Computing - Alan Turing 1940 (ish) :D

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Computing - Alan Turing 1940 (ish) :D

Rubbish.  Colossus was designed by the engineer Tommy Flowers to solve a problem posed by mathematician Max Newman at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park. Alan Turing's use of probability in cryptanalysis only contributed to its design.  

Tommy Flowers spent eleven months from early February to December 1943 designing and building Colossus. He did it at the Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill, in northwest London. They tested it in December 1943. Then they took Colossus apart and moved it to Bletchley Park.

  Charles Babbage early 1600s ( computer ish )

 

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Computing - Alan Turing 1940 (ish) :D

Rubbish.  Colossus was designed by the engineer Tommy Flowers to solve a problem posed by mathematician Max Newman at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park. Alan Turing's use of probability in cryptanalysis only contributed to its design.  

Tommy Flowers spent eleven months from early February to December 1943 designing and building Colossus. He did it at the Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill, in northwest London. They tested it in December 1943. Then they took Colossus apart and moved it to Bletchley Park.

  Charles Babbage early 1600s ( computer ish )

 

A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage is best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer. 1800's I think. 

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