Appeal launched for Bletchley Park to buy Turing Papers - MORE

Sunday, 14 November 2010 09:36

Appeal launched for Bletchley Park to buy Turing Papers
-------------------------------------------------------

Written by Sue Gee   

A fundraising appeal has been launched to enable Bletchley Park, UK home 
of the World War II codebreakers and the birthplace of the modern 
computer, to purchase a unique collection of Turing's published papers.

The forthcoming November 23rd sale by auction of Valuable Printed Books 
and Manuscripts at Christie's King Street, London salerooms ( see Computer 
history under the hammer ) includes :

A collection of Alan Turing's offprints formed by Prof. Maxwell Herman 
Alexander Newman

described in the catalog as

an unparalleled collection of the writings of the founder of modern 
computing science, and one that is unlikely to be replicated.../snip/


http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/1581-bletchley-park-wants-to-buy-turing-papers.html

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/1574-computer-history-under-the-hammer.html

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?action=conditionreport&intObjectId=5370960&acct=li&ti=Mrs&zi=

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/ZoomImage.aspx?image=/lotfinderimages/D53709/d5370960