Biography (Early Life):
Alan Turing was born in June 23, 1912. At his early age he was separated from his parents due to the fact that they had been working overseas. When he was 13, he was to sent to Sherborne School which was a boarding school located in Dorset. The education system that was run there meant that his scientific mind wasn’t given any kind of encouragement and so he studied advanced science ideas by himself which was far ahead of the schools’ timetable and what he should’ve been learning at the time. He became less bored with school when he became attracted to another student called Christopher Morcom which meant he communicated more and became an academic success. However, Christopher suddenly died from tuberculosis. Turing was devastated by this and wanted to believe that he still lived on and his …show more content…
This machine developed to the enigma A and B in the early 1920’s but the sheer weight of them (50 kg) meant that they were too heavy for use by the military until the enigma D came out in 1927. The use of a reflector as the fourth motor meant that the enigma machine became much lighter and smaller than it had previously been beforehand. However, the code of the enigma D was broken in 1935 which meant that a front plug board had been introduced in order to scramble the signal further. When a fourth motor was added, this became a Wehrmacht enigma, which was used by the German military. The German navy also got this model of enigma machines but in 1942 they increased the amount of rotors to eight. The strategic importance of this device was that it could encode and decode vital information but it was best used by the navy to co-ordinate boat attacks well. The Germans used rudeltaktik which means pack tactic which functions like a wolf pack. If an enemy was spotted by a ship, they would radio an encoded message (done by the enigma devices) and all go attack the enemy
Alan Turing was born in June 23, 1912. At his early age he was separated from his parents due to the fact that they had been working overseas. When he was 13, he was to sent to Sherborne School which was a boarding school located in Dorset. The education system that was run there meant that his scientific mind wasn’t given any kind of encouragement and so he studied advanced science ideas by himself which was far ahead of the schools’ timetable and what he should’ve been learning at the time. He became less bored with school when he became attracted to another student called Christopher Morcom which meant he communicated more and became an academic success. However, Christopher suddenly died from tuberculosis. Turing was devastated by this and wanted to believe that he still lived on and his …show more content…
This machine developed to the enigma A and B in the early 1920’s but the sheer weight of them (50 kg) meant that they were too heavy for use by the military until the enigma D came out in 1927. The use of a reflector as the fourth motor meant that the enigma machine became much lighter and smaller than it had previously been beforehand. However, the code of the enigma D was broken in 1935 which meant that a front plug board had been introduced in order to scramble the signal further. When a fourth motor was added, this became a Wehrmacht enigma, which was used by the German military. The German navy also got this model of enigma machines but in 1942 they increased the amount of rotors to eight. The strategic importance of this device was that it could encode and decode vital information but it was best used by the navy to co-ordinate boat attacks well. The Germans used rudeltaktik which means pack tactic which functions like a wolf pack. If an enemy was spotted by a ship, they would radio an encoded message (done by the enigma devices) and all go attack the enemy