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