The Newmanry was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II. Its job was to develop and employ machine methods to help break a German teleprinter cipher machine known as "Tunny" on the British side, or as the "Lorenz SZ 40/42" on the German side. The Newmanry was named for its founder and head, M. H. A. Newman. It was responsible for the Heath Robinson and the Colossus computer. During World War II, codebreakers at Bletchley Park decrypted and interpreted messages from a large number of Axis code and cipher systems, including the German Enigma machine. ... Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, hidden, and analýein, to loosen or to untie) is the study of methods for obtaining the meaning of encrypted information without access to the secret information which is normally required to do so. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Teletype machines in World War II A teleprinter (teletypewriter, teletype or TTY for TeleTYpe/TeleTYpewriter) is a now largely obsolete electro-mechanical typewriter which can be used to communicate typed messages from point to point through a simple electrical communications channel, often just a pair of wires. ... For the fish, see Tuna. ... Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman (February 7, 1897 – February 22, 1984) was a British mathematician and codebreaker. ... Heath Robinson was a machine used by British codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II to solve messages in a German teleprinter cipher, the Lorenz SZ40/42. ... A Colossus Mark II computer. ...

List of Newmanry personnel

• I. J. Good
• Margaret Green
• Sandy Green
• John Herivel (mainly administration)
• Donald Michie
• Max Newman
• David Rees
• J. H. C. Whitehead
• Shaun Wylie

Irving John (Jack) Good (born 9 December 1916) is a British statistician who worked also as a cryptographer and developer of the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park. ... James Alexander (Sandy) Green is a mathematician (until his retirement a Professor in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick), who is still active in the field of representation theory. ... John W. Herivel (born 1918/1919) is a British science historian and former World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park. ... Donald Michie was born on 11 November 1923, and was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. ... Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman (February 7, 1897 – February 22, 1984) was a British mathematician. ... John Henry Constantine Whitehead (11 November 1904- 8 May 1960), known as Henry, was a British mathematician who was one of the founders of homotopy theory. ... Shaun Wylie is a British mathematician and former World War II codebreaker. ...

See also

• Fish
• Testery