The History of Computing in Britain
The story of computing is a fascinating evolution involving numerous inventors, ideas, and technological advancements. Here’s a chronological overview from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace up to Clive Sinclair and Simon Furber. ### Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace– **Charles Babbage (1791–1871)** is often regarded as the “father of the computer.” Continue Reading
Tutte and Flowers – Bletchley Park’s Lost Heroes
It all started with the German Lorenz machine – Hitler’s state of the art encrpyting communications machine – Enigma had been broken in 1941, but this time his new machine was almost un-decypherable The Lorenz SZ40, SZ42a and SZ42b were German rotor stream cipher machines used by the German Army Continue Reading
