Alan Turing inspects Ferranti Mark I console

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Date
1951
Credit Line
Courtesy of the University of Manchester
Copyright Owner
© University of Manchester
Keywords
Pollard, Brian; Lonsdale, Keith; Turing, Alan Mathison
Object ID
500004083

Ferranti engineers Keith Lonsdale and Brian Pollard demonstrate the Ferranti Mark I to Alan Turing. Turing contributed only slightly to the design, which was based not on his ACE but on the Manchester University computers.