Colossus: Breaking the Code - Exhibition on the First 2000 Years of Computing
Part of the CHM exhibition 'Revolution,' this display explores the development of computing over two millennia and highlights how encoded communications played a role in wartime strategies, including Nazi efforts to send secret messages.
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CHM Exhibition "Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing"
The ability to send secret, encoded communications led to ruthless devastation by Nazi troops early in WWII. Allied mathematicians and engineers rushed to build a machine capable of breaking the codes. Here we pay tribute to “Colossus” for helping to end the war and begin the age of computing.
Catalog Number: 102695598
Lot Number: X6142.2011
The ability to send secret, encoded communications led to ruthless devastation by Nazi troops early in WWII. Allied mathematicians and engineers rushed to build a machine capable of breaking the codes. Here we pay tribute to “Colossus” for helping to end the war and begin the age of computing.
Catalog Number: 102695598
Lot Number: X6142.2011
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