Historical place archive

Hanslope Park in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Hanslope Park in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

6 records6 event labels1 people1943–1944

Historical events in Hanslope Park

1943

1943
Delilah Project
Alan Mathison Turing · World War, 2nd

Begins work with Donald Bayley on the portable secure-speech system code-named Delilah.

1943
Delilah Voice Encoder Design
Alan Mathison Turing · World War, 2nd

Designs a system intended to encipher speech for transmission by telephone line or short-distance radio.

1943
Donald Bayley Collaboration
Alan Mathison Turing · World War, 2nd

Works closely with engineer Donald Bayley on electronics, experiments and circuitry for Delilah.

August 1943
Hanslope Park Assignment
Alan Mathison Turing · World War, 2nd

Moves to Hanslope Park to work on secure voice communications rather than returning to full-time Hut 8 work.

1944

1944
Delilah Prototype
Alan Mathison Turing · World War, 2nd

Completes experimental work leading to a functioning prototype of the Delilah secure voice encoder.

1944
Voice Radio Encryption
Alan Mathison Turing · World War, 2nd

Tests Delilah concepts for secure speech transmission over telephone lines and VHF radio links.

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