Tommy Flowers

Tommy Flowers

Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.

Read more about Tommy Flowers:  Early Life, World War II, Post-war Work and Retirement

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