阿兰·图灵 双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第7章:运转起来(86)

双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第7章:运转起来(86)  

By 15 May
Womersley was back at the NPL 'revising his plans'.
The American revelations were enough to give anyone pause for thought.
But they held a particular meaning for Womersley
who held one very unusual card up his sleeve.
但是它们对沃默斯利来说，还有着特殊的意义，他的袖子里还藏着另一张牌。
Before the war
while employed at Woolwich Arsenal on practical putation
he had learnt of Turing machines.
Even more remarkably
for a mathematician-in-the-street
he had not been daunted by the abstruse language of mathematical logic.
According to his claim:
1937-38 Paper Computable Numbers seen by JRW and read.
JRW met C.I. Norfolk
a telephone engineer who had specialised in totalisator design and discussed with him the planning of a 'Turing Machine' using automatic telephone equipment
Rough schematics prepared
and possibility of submitting a proposal to NPL discussed.
It was decided that machine would be too slow to be effective.
June 1938 JRW purchased a uniselector and some relays on Petty Cash at RD Woolwich for spare-time experiments.
Experiments abandoned owing to pressure of work on ballistics.