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Thomas Harold Flowers MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British General Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help decipher encrypted German messages.
- British
- University of London
- Engineer
- Colossus computer
Thomas (Tommy) Harold Flowers (* 22. Dezember 1905 in Poplar, Londoner East End; † 28. Oktober 1998 in London) war ein englischer Ingenieur, der Colossus entwarf.
- Flowers, Thomas Harold (wirklicher Name)
- englischer Ingenieur
- 22. Dezember 1905
- Flowers, Tommy
19. Mai 2023 · Tommy Flowers was a British engineer and mathematician who designed and built the world's first programmable electronic computer, Colossus, during World War Two. He revolutionised computing with his innovative engineering and programming skills, deciphering the German Enigma code and saving lives. Learn more about his life, achievements, and legacy.
- Celeste Neill
Learn about Tommy Flowers, the electrical engineer who designed and built Colossus, the first programmable computer used to decode German messages in World War II. Discover how he overcame skepticism, challenges and personal cost to create a masterpiece of engineering.
- Christopher Mcfadden
Tommy Flowers. Tommy Flowers was born in London's East End on 22 December 1905, the son of a bricklayer. After an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering, he earned a degree in electrical engineering at the University of London.
16. Aug. 2018 · While the release of the award-winning film “The Imitation Game” made Alan Turing a household name, stories of other WWII codebreakers lie buried in the historical archives. One such codebreaker was Thomas H. “Tommy” Flowers, the engineer who designed the Colossus code-breaking machines.
Engineer Tommy Flowers, head of the Switching Group at Dollis Hill, invented Colossus. Having first been approached by Bletchley Park to design equipment for decoding Enigma, he was later given the job of debugging Robinson’s “combining unit” (logic unit). Flowers, who had pioneered the application of
