My Mum worked with Tommy Flowers in the late 1930s. She was just a telephonist at Dollis Hill research station, but she never, EVER discussed what she did. She had to leave when she married - British policy then. If you got married, you left your job. How strange!
5th and 6th September 2009 / 70th anniversary reunion at Bletchley Park.
I spent the weekend exploring the work place of some of the greatest minds ever to come together in one place working towards a common goal, the work of Turing, Flowers, Babbage along with all the others that will never recieve the credit , respect and thanks we owe them, just think how far we could have gone if Turing had been given a reason to live instead of a reason to die.
"You can defeat an enemy intellectually, and that was shown here." Somebody should tell Quentin Tarantino. He could have Turing, (played by Steven Seagal), drive a slide rule through Hitler and Doenitz;s hearts in the climactic scenes of "Bletchley Basterds" to show this triumphant achievement. to a modern audience.
thanks for uploading this video....and thank you very much for all the people who had worked in Bletchley Park ...your work and your lives had been worthy for you had saved lives and you had shortened the war...may your souls rest in peace and happiness ....Winston Churchill and to the geniuses Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, Tommy Flowers...and to all who had died in the war
Yeah, just imagine working day and night for years just looking at code trying to make sense of it all. You could probably only dream about codes and text, with just the letters, lots of letters. At first not knowing why, then not knowing how and then not knowing when you'll break the code, with constant pressure to do your best. It must've been a strange experience.
Good Documentary! Much better than the other inaccurate one. I've actually seen this before, as originally I think it was a BBC Timewatch episode, but maybe i'm mistaken.
It is clear it is an american production. The Whermacht were also burned by Hitler by his changing of tactics (know one knows why he did. Maybe he thought the British public would make the government plead for an armistice?). Bombing cities instead of the RAF gave the RAF time to re-arm. Would D-day have happened if he didnt change tactics then no battle of britain= not D-day? With WW2 there is so many unsung stories, i guess thats why its so intriguing?
...the Whermacht was btw also burned by Three Peoples, Three Nations, Three Leaders. Even if Hitler had gotten to listening to his generals more, even if the decoders at Bletchley hadn't amounted to that much, it was inevidable to fail - sooner or later, with all those open fronts. I don't know wtf the Germans had been thinking. They must had really been out of their wits, those generations of them.. Hadn't they been, they would have at least had Adolf assasinated....
@washcloud From the initial advantage in tactics and technology there really was no other outcome than Hitler overrunning Europe which he did with relative easy, and isolate England in what bubbles along as a sideshow for him, requiring limited resources, while the mass of his might was directed towards the Eastern Front. Films and popular notions project a much more dominate role of the western front than reality. 25,000,000 Soviet citizens died in that front, that also stopped Hitler
@km6xz I'm not quite sure I got the point you were trying to make, but if it was that USSR was the most important party of the combined forces that brought the Nazis to their knees, I do agree.
@washcloud I may have expressed poorly. The war was extended inadvertantly by the western Allies not sharing important intelligence and essentially waiting the USSR out while they wore down the Nazi's by attrition. If there was an equal effort, on 2-3 front 10s of millions of lives would have been spared. Roosevelt was in no position politically to bring the US into another war, the country was not solid behind Western Europe until Pearl Harbor.
@km6xz con't ....and Churchill had few bargaining chips. Besides neither country had the technology or manpower in uniform and trained to be able to mix it up with German at the time. Later in the war, both the USSR and USA certainly did, but that was after Germany had lost much of its strength. Some estimates put the military strength and readiness of Germany and its Axis Powers was down to 18% of what it had been by D-Day, most of that lost by having a 40 to 1 kill ratio on the E.F
@km6xz con't ....but seeing videos like this, and US school text books it appears that the average American has no idea that the USSR was even in the war, nor that John Wayne did not win it singlehandedly.
In fact, Colossus was the first operational programmable computer; the Z3 was program run but was never fully operational as it was only ever shown once to a select audience.
If you really need to split hairs, you could say that neither were turing-complete, but the former being more complete than the latter for two reasons: One because Colossus was operational and proven and two, because Konrad Zeus plagiarised part of Turing's work which resulted in the latters disapproval for a patent 1936.
I just finish watching this video, now I'm going to watch the rise of the enigma too the minute I'm posting these comment.
Wesley95501 2 weeks ago
:(....... weeping on the end documentary. thanks for the videos.
now i m gona watch [code breaker] the rise of enigma
gulparviz 1 month ago
My Mum worked with Tommy Flowers in the late 1930s. She was just a telephonist at Dollis Hill research station, but she never, EVER discussed what she did. She had to leave when she married - British policy then. If you got married, you left your job. How strange!
monica20112 8 months ago
Superb documentary.
Eurofighter19 8 months ago
5th and 6th September 2009 / 70th anniversary reunion at Bletchley Park.
I spent the weekend exploring the work place of some of the greatest minds ever to come together in one place working towards a common goal, the work of Turing, Flowers, Babbage along with all the others that will never recieve the credit , respect and thanks we owe them, just think how far we could have gone if Turing had been given a reason to live instead of a reason to die.
Visit Bletchley, remember and thank them all.
franksongraphics 2 years ago 4
"You can defeat an enemy intellectually, and that was shown here." Somebody should tell Quentin Tarantino. He could have Turing, (played by Steven Seagal), drive a slide rule through Hitler and Doenitz;s hearts in the climactic scenes of "Bletchley Basterds" to show this triumphant achievement. to a modern audience.
mjeshaw 2 years ago 4
@mjeshaw thanks, i didn't understand all words acoustically, but knew i would like it
ms101289 7 months ago
thanks for uploading this video....and thank you very much for all the people who had worked in Bletchley Park ...your work and your lives had been worthy for you had saved lives and you had shortened the war...may your souls rest in peace and happiness ....Winston Churchill and to the geniuses Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, Tommy Flowers...and to all who had died in the war
postrea 2 years ago 7
Yeah, just imagine working day and night for years just looking at code trying to make sense of it all. You could probably only dream about codes and text, with just the letters, lots of letters. At first not knowing why, then not knowing how and then not knowing when you'll break the code, with constant pressure to do your best. It must've been a strange experience.
rgbk73 2 years ago 5
Good Documentary! Much better than the other inaccurate one. I've actually seen this before, as originally I think it was a BBC Timewatch episode, but maybe i'm mistaken.
Never-the-less, good video!
LockCarge 2 years ago 2
This was produced in USA for a PBS series tilted "Nova." I think it's so funny how the arrogant German Whermacht got burned by these people.
2bn442RCT 2 years ago
It is clear it is an american production. The Whermacht were also burned by Hitler by his changing of tactics (know one knows why he did. Maybe he thought the British public would make the government plead for an armistice?). Bombing cities instead of the RAF gave the RAF time to re-arm. Would D-day have happened if he didnt change tactics then no battle of britain= not D-day? With WW2 there is so many unsung stories, i guess thats why its so intriguing?
Thanks for the upload great doc
InkyEnston 2 years ago
...the Whermacht was btw also burned by Three Peoples, Three Nations, Three Leaders. Even if Hitler had gotten to listening to his generals more, even if the decoders at Bletchley hadn't amounted to that much, it was inevidable to fail - sooner or later, with all those open fronts. I don't know wtf the Germans had been thinking. They must had really been out of their wits, those generations of them.. Hadn't they been, they would have at least had Adolf assasinated....
washcloud 2 years ago
@washcloud From the initial advantage in tactics and technology there really was no other outcome than Hitler overrunning Europe which he did with relative easy, and isolate England in what bubbles along as a sideshow for him, requiring limited resources, while the mass of his might was directed towards the Eastern Front. Films and popular notions project a much more dominate role of the western front than reality. 25,000,000 Soviet citizens died in that front, that also stopped Hitler
km6xz 1 year ago
@km6xz I'm not quite sure I got the point you were trying to make, but if it was that USSR was the most important party of the combined forces that brought the Nazis to their knees, I do agree.
washcloud 1 year ago
@washcloud I may have expressed poorly. The war was extended inadvertantly by the western Allies not sharing important intelligence and essentially waiting the USSR out while they wore down the Nazi's by attrition. If there was an equal effort, on 2-3 front 10s of millions of lives would have been spared. Roosevelt was in no position politically to bring the US into another war, the country was not solid behind Western Europe until Pearl Harbor.
km6xz 1 year ago
@km6xz con't ....and Churchill had few bargaining chips. Besides neither country had the technology or manpower in uniform and trained to be able to mix it up with German at the time. Later in the war, both the USSR and USA certainly did, but that was after Germany had lost much of its strength. Some estimates put the military strength and readiness of Germany and its Axis Powers was down to 18% of what it had been by D-Day, most of that lost by having a 40 to 1 kill ratio on the E.F
km6xz 1 year ago
@km6xz con't ....but seeing videos like this, and US school text books it appears that the average American has no idea that the USSR was even in the war, nor that John Wayne did not win it singlehandedly.
km6xz 1 year ago
Very intresting films. All of them.
stuartthegrant 2 years ago
Yes my father who is Scottish enjoyed them very much and recorded them for me several years ago!
2bn442RCT 2 years ago
Colossus was the first programmable electronic(!) computer.
The first programmable computer was the Z3 by Konrad Zuse in 1941.
Molo9000 2 years ago
In fact, Colossus was the first operational programmable computer; the Z3 was program run but was never fully operational as it was only ever shown once to a select audience.
If you really need to split hairs, you could say that neither were turing-complete, but the former being more complete than the latter for two reasons: One because Colossus was operational and proven and two, because Konrad Zeus plagiarised part of Turing's work which resulted in the latters disapproval for a patent 1936.
LockCarge 2 years ago
Didn't somebody prove that the Z3 was turing complete?
Molo9000 2 years ago