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The Bombe Bletchley Park Completed in 2007 using the original blueprints. An electromechanical device designed by A Turing, G Welchman and H Keen, used in cracking the German Enigma code during the Second World War. The 200 Bombes built by the British Tabulating Machine Company played a pivotal role in winning the war.

Plaque 8337

Erected

by Institution of Mechanical Engineers on 01 March 2009

Language English
Colour red and black
Location Block B - Bletchley Park , Bletchley
Subjects Bombe (from 1939)
Alan Turing (1912 – 1954)
Gordon Welchman (1906 – 1985)
Harold Keen (1894 – 1973)
Machine tag openplaques:id=8337
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