雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第7章:運轉起來(86)
By 15 May, Womersley was back at the NPL 'revising his plans'.
The American revelations were enough to give anyone pause for thought.
從美國學到的東西，已經足夠讓人思考很久了。But they held a particular meaning for Womersley, who held one very unusual card up his sleeve.
但是它們對沃默斯利來說，還有着特殊的意義，他的袖子裏還藏着另一張牌。
Before the war, while employed at Woolwich Arsenal on practical computation, he had learnt of Turing machines.
在戰爭之前，在伍爾維奇兵工廠研究實用計算時，他就聽說了圖靈機。Even more remarkably, for a mathematician-in-the-street, he had not been daunted by the abstruse language of mathematical logic.
難得的是，作爲業餘數學家，他並沒有被數理邏輯的深奧語言嚇倒。According to his claim:
根據他的記錄：1937-38 Paper Computable Numbers seen by JRW and read.
1937-38: JRW閱讀了《可計算數》論文。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見到C.I.諾福科，設計累加器的電話工程師，並討論了使用自動電話設備建造圖靈機的計劃，制訂了簡要的方案，並討論了提交給國家物理實驗室的可行性。It was decided that machine would be too slow to be effective.
結論是，機器的速度很慢，無法有效實用。June 1938 JRW purchased a uniselector and some relays on Petty Cash at RD Woolwich for spare-time experiments.
1938年6月：JRW在沃爾維奇，用零用開支，購買了一個單向選擇器和一些繼電器，準備在業餘時做些實驗。Experiments abandoned owing to pressure of work on ballistics.
這些實驗不受彈道工作的壓力。
