As part of the Engineering in London program, UT students visited Bletchley Park, home of the British World War ll efforts to break the German Enigma codes. They were given demonstrations of both the Enigma coding machine and the Alan Turing-designed Bombe machine used to break the codes. The Bombe is considered an immediate predecessor of the first computers.

Added attractions were sets from the movie “The Imitation Game,” filmed at Bletchley and centering on Alan Turing’s development of the Bombe (called Christopher in the movie).