(10 Apr 2015)
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New York - April 9, 2015
1. Wide of Bonhams Auction House in New York
2. Medium of handwritten book by Turing
3. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): Cassandra Hatton, Bonhams Auction House
"It's the only known manuscript in Turing's hand so right there it's extremely rare pretty much everything at the archive consists of typescripts at the publication or near publication level so we don't have anything else written by him."
4. Medium of mathematical and computer science writing in manuscript
5. Medium of book on pedestal
6. Tight of caption
7. Medium of mathematical and computer science notations
8. Wide of Enigma machine
9. Tight on Enigma inscription
10. Medium on Enigma buttons being pushed
11. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): Cassandra Hatton, Bonhams Auction House
"So it's an original German World War II Enigma Enciphering Machine. This machine dates to about 1944. This machine is what accounted for the Nazi success up until the point that Turing and the other code breakers at Bletchley Park were able to break this code. So were it not for Turing and the other code breakers the war would have ended very differently and again it's primarily thanks to the technology found inside of this machine."
12. Medium of Enigma machine writing
13. Medium of Enigma machine controls
14. Medium of German writing on Enigma machine
15. Medium of moving parts inside Enigma machine
STORYLINE:
A handwritten notebook by Alan Turing, the British mathematician and computer scientist who broke the Nazi's code, will be auctioned at Bonhams in New York on April 13th.
It is expected to fetch more than one million dollars.
The 56 page manuscript dates from 1942 when Turing was working to break the German Enigma code, according to the auction house.
It is filled with math and other writings that contributed to the birth of modern computer languages.
Turing was the focus of the 2014 Oscar winning movie 'The Imitation Game.'
The handwritten notebook was saved by his friend and fellow codebreaker Robin Gandy, who wrote about his dreams in the same notebook.
Also at auction is a working Enigma Machine, built by the German military late in World War II. It generated the secret wartime code that Turing and others working at Bletchley Park in the UK were able to break.
The Enigma cipher machine is expected to sell for between 140 and 180 thousand dollars.
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