Slow-speed relay operated simulator of the National Physical Laboratory's automatic computing engine (ACE), by the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, England and components by Bosch, ...

Main frame, for Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) pilot model, made at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, London, England, and some of the valves by Osram, Germany, 1949. The construction of ...

B. Imagining Computational Creativity The protagonist of Dahl’s 1954 short story “The Great Automatic Grammatizator” is a diffident young engineer named Adolph Knipe, who, as the story opens ...

The Babbage Engine Exhibit opens May 10 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. The central artifact of the exhibit, a faithful construction of Englishman Charles Babbage's ...

News Published: 03 January 1959 The Automatic Computing Engine at the National Physical Laboratory J. H. WILKINSON & D. W. DAVIES Nature 183, 22–23 (1959) Cite this article ...

In 1945 he proposed an advanced calculating device he called the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE)—a computer that would have been the most advanced of its era.

You'll also see pictures of the Automatic Computing Engine Pilot Machine (the trial model for a very early computer) and schematics for the British Bombe codebreaking machine Turing specified.

An electronic engineer inspects a prototype of Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine at the National Physical Laboratory in London on November 29, 1950.