Innovation

Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at on 17 November 2016.

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Photo of Stewart Stevenson Stewart Stevenson Scottish National Party

The member is absolutely correct. However, I refer to my previous response. We have to acknowledge that innovation in war is very important.

I want to talk about another innovation that came from war. A gentleman called Tommy Flowers, who was a General Post Office engineer at the Dollis Hill research laboratory in northern London, got posted to what is now the Government Communications Headquarters, which was then the base that was trying to break the Enigma codes that the Germans used for their military communications.