Why is the basement of the Museum Of History Of Science not full of bits of real machines and heroic pictures of the men and women of The British Tabulating Machine Company instead of that wretched 'steampunk' exhibition (mutter mutter)? Notably, of course, Harold 'Doc' Keen who had worked for BTM since before WWI and designed the Bombes of Bletchley Park (based, of course, on Alan Turing's conception).
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Why is the basement of the Museum Of History Of Science not full of bits of real machines and heroic pictures of the men and women of The British Tabulating Machine Company instead of that wretched 'steampunk' exhibition (mutter mutter)? Notably, of course, Harold 'Doc' Keen who had worked for BTM since before WWI and designed the Bombes of Bletchley Park (based, of course, on Alan Turing's conception).
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Sweet municipal dreams
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The Hanging Tree - 2 questions
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The Hanging Tree
When more of you have read it I will be asking a couple of questions.
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