双语畅销书《艾伦图灵传》第7章:运转起来(86)
By 15 May, Womersley was back at the NPL 'revising his plans'.
The American revelations were enough to give anyone pause for thought.
从美国学到的东西，已经足够让人思考很久了。But they held a particular meaning for Womersley, who held one very unusual card up his sleeve.
但是它们对沃默斯利来说，还有着特殊的意义，他的袖子里还藏着另一张牌。
Before the war, while employed at Woolwich Arsenal on practical computation, he had learnt of Turing machines.
在战争之前，在伍尔维奇兵工厂研究实用计算时，他就听说了图灵机。Even more remarkably, for a mathematician-in-the-street, he had not been daunted by the abstruse language of mathematical logic.
难得的是，作为业余数学家，他并没有被数理逻辑的深奥语言吓倒。According to his claim:
根据他的记录：1937-38 Paper Computable Numbers seen by JRW and read.
1937-38: JRW阅读了《可计算数》论文。JRW met C.I. Norfolk, a telephone engineer who had specialised in totalisator design and discussed with him the planning of a 'Turing Machine' using automatic telephone equipment, Rough schematics prepared, and possibility of submitting a proposal to NPL discussed.
JRW见到C.I.诺福科，设计累加器的电话工程师，并讨论了使用自动电话设备建造图灵机的计划，制订了简要的方案，并讨论了提交给国家物理实验室的可行性。It was decided that machine would be too slow to be effective.
结论是，机器的速度很慢，无法有效实用。June 1938 JRW purchased a uniselector and some relays on Petty Cash at RD Woolwich for spare-time experiments.
1938年6月：JRW在沃尔维奇，用零用开支，购买了一个单向选择器和一些继电器，准备在业余时做些实验。Experiments abandoned owing to pressure of work on ballistics.
这些实验不受弹道工作的压力。
