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Google has donated £550,000 ($850,000) towards the £15 million project to renovate [Bletchley Park](http://www.engadget.com/tag/bletchley+park/). The donation from Mountain View is part of a $100 million charitable program that's previously helped rescue [Alan Turing's](http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/25/turing-machine-built-from-wood-scrap-metal-and-magnets-geek/) personal papers. The country estate is the former home of Station X and the British Government's Code and Cypher School, which was where the [Enigma Machine](http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/30/original-wwii-enigma-machine-for-sale-on-ebay/) was decrypted. Turing, its most famous alumnus went on to pioneer computer science and artificial intelligence during his short life and the complex now houses the [National Museum of Computing](http://www.engadget.com/tag/national+museum+of+computing/). Unfortunately the buildings are rapidly collapsing and enormous investment is still required to transform the site into a museum, attraction and fitting tribute to the work of the codebreakers.
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