Visit to: Bletchley Park - Home of the Codebreakers
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- After watching the film "The Imitation Game", I felt inspired to visit Bletchley Park where all the code breaking activity took place during the 2nd world war. Fortunately, Bletchley isn't far from where I live. We saw the Enigma machines as well as the Bombe which was used to speed up breaking of the Enigma cyphers.
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From those of us who are not able to visit this place, thank you for making the video.
This was a nice treat
Thanks for tacking the time to film it, I enjoyed it :)
Not seen the film but done alot of reading on Bletchley during the war, never again will you have a collective of such innovate, intelligent minds all working towards the same goal again, what they achieved was so far ahead of its time it wasn't really realised on a technical level what these people had achieved until decades later. Mind Boggling.
During the 1980's I attended several courses at BP, when the park was a BT technical training collage, the sound of the bombe working is very similar to that of the electromechanical strowger exchanges of the day. Great vid, I must go visit again this year.
Thanks Julian. Saw the movie a couple of weeks ago, presently plowing (a VERY hard read) through the book. I love those old radio sets, we had some at school in the CCF. Looking forward to the next episode.
I've had the pleasure of visiting Bletchley Park on 2 occasions to date but have only seen a very small part of the whole thing.
I would guess you'd need about 5 days to see it all if you got a move on. The Radio Hut is very interesting with many examples of radio equipment of those days, they also are the largest 'valve exchange' there is and are always on the look out for old valves, so if you have anything interesting laying around you now know where to send them to rather than dumping them.
Hope you all enjoy your visit/s as I have, so much to see, maybe at Bletchley when we have our next visit.
John M I had a reel-to-reel tape recorder when I was a young kid which used valves. I can even remember the numbers - there was an ECC83 and a couple of EL84s. No idea why I can still remember that!
Julian Ilett
Just think if you had kept it you could get new valves for it from Bletchley ;-)
Thanks for the great vids Julian, keep 'em coming.
thanx for the information watched film after your upload really enjoyed and can't wait for your next visit thanx simon
Thanks for your video! Visited Bletchley Park myself recently and it is indeed a fascinating place. I shall have to go back though, as there is so much to see and absorb. Incidentally, watched the film later the same day, which was great.
Very good, Julian- best coverage of the bombe I have seen. Can't wait for the next bit! Thanks :)
Great stuff, thanks for sharing! I'm curious about the National Museum of Computing, can't wait.
Thanks for bringing us along.
hi carrier pigeons played a big part in the war days, how they used to do it was they used to take the hen pigeon off her eggs in the pigeon loft then the mail pigeon used to sit on them to keep them warm, the hen pigeon could be taken 300 miles away. Then they would tire a note or similar device to the pigeons leg, then basically all that hen pigeon wants to do is get back to them eggs to keep them warm and hatch them, they will fly 24 hours a day solid for days without stopping some used to die of exhaustion. But they are fantastic creatures, I know it's boring stuff what I have said, but that's how they used to do it, really enjoy your channel. Keep up the good work
another great tour, thanks so much for sharing
Thank you for sharing, Julian, I would love to see a follow up video when you go back to visit the National Museum of Computing
Thanks, always wanted to visit Bletchley Park, but never got the chance.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing, i guess i have a movie to see, and maby a museum if i some day go to Britan.
Enjoying your videos, keep up the good work.
Thanks from Denmark.
Thank you for the video Julian. I like Ben. Cumberbatch , and I'll see the movie soon. Been in London a few months ago, and spent a lot of time in the science museum.
Thank you very much for this very nicely presented video.
Nice oldschool tech..such complex machines:)
Thanks for the video Julian. Bletchley Park sure has changed since I was last there in 2010. Hopefully making it back to the UK next year and Bletchley is on the list for a return visit.
Nick Gibbs Yes, it had changed hugely since I last visited too. Partly due to lottery funding I understand.
Very interesting tour! Great vid :D
Another wonderful video, Julian. I live only about an hour's drive from Bletchley, but have never been. I should rectify this soonest, really, considering I do computer security for a living.
Max Ashton You really should!
That's a cool video Julian. And I was trying to remember what that movie was called..!
I don't have an Enigma machine nor a Bombe lying around, but I do have lots ov old military radio gear and cotton covered cabling. In fact one ov our 12 volt circuits is wired in a quite heavy piece. It's two compleatly separate wires, twisted together. It is indeed cotton covered on the outside but the insulator is rubber. This one is in very good condition (despite it's age) but I would not use it for much over the voltage I am running just in case.
Awesome video! Thanks!
That 'Receiving Set' at 8:10 is, (IIRC) an HRO. The front had a drawer which could be pulled out, and replaced with another for a different frequency band. The meter is an S meter, for signal strength.
How do I know this? When I was a kid, our amateur radio society was basically kitted out with surplus wartime kit - and, yes, I've used one 'in anger'.
The Frequency Meter was a BC228. I had one.
In the front drawer was a typed logbook, written by the manufacturer individually for each one. If you had one of those, the Post Office inspector - who checked your transmitting gear periodically (once, in my case!) saw you had one of those, he never botherd you again!
I saw them often on the Ham 2nd-hand market. They were worth next-to-nothing without the book. But that was 40 years ago...Probably worth something now.
As far as Pigeons are concerned, they are still an approved Internet Standard - I kid you not! Checkout RFC1149. www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt (when I was at Nokia, I used that text to test job applicants for comprehension and linguistic abilities...),
There exists an IP6 version, rfc6214....
Andy Crofts Something rather beautiful about valves. I saw a huge 4K TV in John Lewis the other day - the sound bar had two valves driving the speakers. Not quite sure how that works in a 5-channel surround sound system though.
Wow thanks, years ago, well in 1970 I was training in the US Army to be a Field Wireman at Fort Leonard Wood Mo. We had two days training, a sort of familiarization on machines much like the Enigma, while on a much grander scale with a printer for the code, the wheel mechanism was much the same. I think the intention was not to make us coders but to just acquaint us with the fact that such a device was useable in the field. Much later in my military career, i worked with the real stuff for radio and landline teletype machines. The wheels were gone and replaced with very large machines. These machines were programed using a patch cord system, small blocks that would fit in the palm of your hand with, if my memory serves, 62 cords all numbered on the plugs, and 62 holes. Every day you used the device, you needed to program those patches via the secret daily code key. I am sure these are now gone by the wayside, as well as the plug devices for encrypted radio transmissions, a different type of code device using a sort of plunger device that was preset to the daily code key for that device. All in all a pain for those of us who had to set up the codes but very secure when in use.
Aaaaah that place is where dreams come true! I love the room there the Acorns are I MISS MY ACORN A5000!!!
I can only imagine what it must have cost to build and develop all those years ago! I was waiting for you to pull out a small test meter any moment! Looking forward to a video on the computer wing. Bit far to go visit for myself from New Zealand.
Michael Beeny Hopefully, we'll get back to the computer museum in a few weeks time.
Great video.
You may be able to get a piece of tape from Colossus as a souvenir and there is big and interesting ATC stuff, and lots of Unix and Amigas, Atari, Apple and you can touch a REAL Next cube!!!
Wow! Nice video. I love playing with relays and electromechanical logic, have used it in several projects. I tried to build a computer out of elevator controllers... not enough relays tho.
Where there yesterday - very interesting place!!
I watched this film last week for the second time and was watching several videos about the "Enigma" in youtube. What a nice coincidence! :D I'm looking forward to visit Bletchley Park in one or two years. Very interesting and informative/educational video!
Greetings from Germany!
btw: Sorry for my bad English, I am trying to improve it also by watching English youtubers!
Keep up your good work!
max003mk Thanks. I too have been watching RUclips videos on the Enigma, Bombe and Colossus machines recently. It really helped me to understand the basics of how these machines worked. But I still don't understand all of it.
Awesome, Thanks
Sad to think Alan Turing was treated in such a way, when he almost single handedly saved millions of allied lives an shortened the war by years...the man was a genius and a hero, not all hero's wield a gun
Great Movie!
Should have checked out the computing museum next door, colossus and witch both reside and function there plus the tunny machine. Colossus and tunny being used for cracking the german Lorenz machine (which an example of is in the upper hall above the enigma machines at Bletchley).
SixSixSevenSeven Hoping to get back to Bletchley in a few weeks. This time we'll spend the majority of the day in the Museum of Computing.
will have to pay a visit this year
Excellent update
Very nice video
I am going to england next Febraury and I have a doubt, I am going to have about 3 hours spare time to maybe visit Bletchley park, can you tell me if 3 hours is enough to visit the whole complex (Bletchley park + museum of computing)?
Sorry about my english.
+nathan freitas 3 hours isn't enough time for both.
thanks for the input!
what you think would be the time to spend there?
Why! That mansion is beautiful. Movie doesn't do it justice.
Thought you would at least do a tear down of the Enigma Julian. Maybe a Arduino facsimile . ha Ha
Enigma remind me of the Cigar old Man. haha ...."I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
The amazing power of GCHQ
thingyee1118 GCHQ have the occasional "open day" for families of employees. How "open" these open days are, one can only imagine!