#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.
At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.
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@paulk @CarveHerName Be sure to check out The National Museum of Computing around back! It's a separate museum on the site, and has working Bombe and Colossus replicas (and Colossus even has a couple original parts!).
@spacehobo Thank you. I have seen that too. A friend of mine was a tour guide there 9 years ago when I visited Bletchley. He knew his way around.
Alan Turing was a hero. And the UK government killed him for being gay.
@lemgandi Well, yes. I just rewatched Breaking the Code, the 1990s BBC film about him which is on iPlayer.
However, we run a women’s history account so our focus is on the hundreds of women who worked at BP.
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