During the war, the mansion in Buckinghamshire in southeastern England was home to the British Government Code and Cipher School, where the world’s first programmable digital computer was built to interpret Nazi messages.
Facebook said Monday that the “computer age was born” on the site, announcing its $ 1.3 million contribution.
“Like many of our favorite destinations, the decline in visitors and revenue this year is pushing us to make difficult decisions about its future,” the company’s chief technical officer GM Fiser Mike Scroffer said in a blog post. “Facebook has pledged to provide 1 million support to help keep Bleachley Park open to the world.”
The museum, which now operates the site, said in August that it expects to lose 2 2 million (2. 2.6 million) in 2020 as revenue declines, and it plans to lay off 35 employees – its third.
Numerous lives were saved during the war by the work of mostly 10,000 women code-breakers and the conflict was shortened, and historians debate whether Allied’s victory could have been achieved without it. Alan Turing, illustrator mathematician who worked on the site, was the subject of the Academy Award-winning 2014 film “The Imitation Game.”
“Facebook wouldn’t exist today if it weren’t for Bulletly Park,” Scrufferfe wrote. “The work of his most brilliant scientist, Alan Turing, continues to inspire thousands of our engineers and research scientists today.”
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Twitter That “this vital support will contribute to our ongoing work and help reduce the economic impact of the coronavirus epidemic on trust.”
Activities at Bletchley Park remained a secret for many years after the war. In April, rare footage of staff at the scene was discovered and published online.
