Berkshire Network Photo Album
A visit to Bletchley Park
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The audience waits...
The Berkshire Network Chairman, David Lenaghan, presents the programme for the day.
It is a little complicated but the engineers amongst you should be able to understand it.
Tea, coffee and orange juice for everyone
The red group are getting ready to go on a tour of the park.
Nick Meyers, a volunteer guide, explains the history of Bletchley Park from a war-time perspective.
Nick talks about each of the huts. The site was operated on a need to know basis so the people in one hut would not necessarily know what went on in the others.
This is the Bombe - The primary tool for breaking the enigma code.
The Bombe is effectively a rack of enigma machines connected together.
A closer look at the Bombe
The Colossus rebuild project - used to break the Lorenz code during WW2.
A Colossus Schematic diagram. It is more complicated than it looks.
Neil Downey is doing an experiment to transmit radio signals through the earth using some large metal rods, an old radio and something that looks like an ice-cream tub.
It has often been said that any engineering problem can be solved with a sufficiently large hammer.
Chris Finnie from the Berkshire Network is helping to pack away at the end.
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