Bletchley Park tweet saves Alan Turing computing papers

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Alan Turing's nephew Sir John Dermot Turing looks at Stephen Kettle's sculpture of his uncle at the exhibition

There is something quite fitting that a single tweet sparked off a campaign to save the work of a man who helped to develop the world's first modern computer.

This, in turn, led to the development of an exhibition devoted to his life and work.

Rare mathematical papers written by Alan Turing are now part of a new display at the World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.

Turing, who took his own life in 1954 at the age of 41, helped to create the Bombe machine which was used to crack the Enigma code at Bletchley Park and later created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer.