Join us for an enlightening evening with Lynn Turner from The Communications Museum Trust, exploring the fascinating development of intercontinental communications in the first half of the 20th century.
This talk charts the vulnerable early days of transatlantic telephone links and reveals how wartime necessity drove innovation in communication security. Discover how scientists transformed a voice synthesizer into a groundbreaking encryption system that would help safeguard transatlatinc communications.
This talk offers unique insights into a critical period in communications history, when the need for secure long-distance communication helped shape modern encryption technology.
About the speaker
Lynn Turner is a retired Primary school teacher who specialised in children with Special Needs, particularly dyslexic pupils. She is a member of the Communications Museum Trust and believes that young people learn more readily when they are inspired by an area of interest. In short it is better to light fires than fill buckets!
Communications Museum Trust members Chris Wager and Andrew Wood will also be available to answer any technical questions.
About The Communications Museum Trust
The Communications Museum Trust is a non-profit charitable company. The founders have extensive experience of working with various museums accross the UK with significant communications & computing exhibits who have come together to lay the future for telecoms history preservation in the UK recognising that there was a need for a more formal central body to co-ordinate the collections which are geographically dispersed and ensure that technical skills and knowledge to keep these exhibits working are not lost for future generations.
