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

Famous quotes containing the words tommy and/or flowers:

    “Tommy: Life is short.
    Alice Hyatt: So are you.”
    —Robert Getchell, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Tommy (Alfred Lutter)

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    Meet to perfume our burying;
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    And man does flourish but his time.
    Survey our progress from our birth—
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