On Display

Codebreaking on an industrial scale

• Punched-card machine by British Tabulating Machines

Aiming bombs

• Aircraft bomb-aiming mechanical computer

The most significant Turing artefact in existence

• The Pilot ACE computer

Mathematics with Meccano

• Meccano differential analyser by Douglas Hartree

Breaking the Enigma

• Early military Enigma machine

Using the Pilot ACE

• Wreckage from a Comet jet

A matter of life and death

• Bottle of oestrogen female hormone pills

Turing’s trip to the Science Museum

• Cybernetic tortoise by William Grey Walter

Training electronic brains

• Electrical logic machine by Dietrich Prinz and Wolfe Mays

When computers were women

• Calculating machine used at the Scientific Computing Service