The eccentric engineer - [network history]

EVERYBODY LIKES a mystery, provided they¿re not paying for it, and few in engineering terms have been as strange or as costly as the story that began in June 1918 with the arrival of a detachment of Royal Engineers at Southwick Green in Sussex. The work party that summer were all sworn to the utmost secrecy as they set about building a camp to house the staff for project `M-N¿. Not long after, the locals in Shoreham noticed that a huge construction had begun on their doorstep as two gargantuan concrete-andsteel towers began to rise from the harbourside laboured on by over 3,000 men, mainly at night.