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Photos: Secret-code machines come to Bletchley
Photo One of the world's largest collections of Enigma cipher machines - famous for being used by the Nazis to protect communications during the Second World War - is to go on display at Bletchley Park. The Enigma electro... [17 Aug 2009]
Tech in pictures: The best of 2008
Photo In May, the gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum... [11 Dec 2008]
iPhone vs BlackBerry, Dan Dare and wi-fi on trains
News Then travelling back in time to the 1950s, silicon.com looked at the golden age of technological innovation that followed World War II. In November silicon.com waded in to settle the thorny issue of... [01 Dec 2008]
BT to sell off 'secret World War II tunnels'
News BT is looking for a new buyer for its "secret World War II tunnels". The mile-long Kingsway Tunnels have a chequered history, starting off life in the early 1940s as air raid shelter designed to hold 8,000 people and... [16 Oct 2008]
Photos: IBM from Spitfires to Sphynxes
Photo The house's owner was a passionate supporter of the British war effort in the 1940s and bankrupted himself and his family funding it. The IBM development laboratory at Hursley House celebrates its 50th birthday this month. [19 Sep 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [30 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons of post-World War II computing at the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum in London. [01 May 2008]
Creator of the integrated circuit dies
News He went into the Army during World War II but returned to Illinois to graduate in 1947. Jack Kilby, whose work on integrated circuits in the 1950s ushered in the digital era, died on Monday after a... [22 Jun 2005]
BT Tower preserved for posterity
News The decision to list the structures was taken on the advice of English Heritage, which put together its recommendations as part of a study of post-war communications buildings. The BT Tower - one of London's most... [26 Mar 2003]
