Alan Turing's Top Secret DIY Project

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The Lost Story of Alan Turing’s Secret “Delilah” Project

Yet the image has persisted of Turing as someone who made fundamental yet abstract contributions, rather than as someone whose endeavors sometimes fit onto the spectrum from bench electronics through to engineering theory. The Bayley papers bring a different Turing into focus: Turing the creative electrical engineer, with blobs of solder all over his shoes—even if his soldered joints did have a tendency to come apart, as Bayley loved to relate. …

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Imagine being able to transform an entire room of voice encryption machines into a device the size of a shoebox. Who could possibly do it? Actually, someone did it: his name was Alan Turing, and this is the story of his Delilah Project, an invention that remained hidden for decades. Delilah Project: a bridge between mathematics and engineering The Delilah Project represents one of the lesser-known chapters in the career of the great Alan Turing,…

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Alan Turing's Top Secret DIY Project

It was 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day. With the German military’s unconditional surrender, the European part of World War II came to an end. Alan Turing and his assistant Donald Bayley celebrated victory in their quiet English way, by taking a long walk together. They had been working side by side for more than a year in a secret electronics laboratory, deep in the English countryside. Bayley, a young electrical engineer, knew little about hi…