Tommy Flowers
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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.
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Tommy Flowers | |
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Born | Thomas Harold Flowers (1905-12-22)22 December 1905 Bromley-by-Bow, London, England |
Died | 28 October 1998(1998-10-28) (aged 92) Mill Hill, London, England |
Nationality | British |
Education | University of London |
Occupation | Engineer |
Known for | Colossus computer |
Spouse |
Eileen Margaret Green
(m. 1935) |
Children | 2 |
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