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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.
Thomas (Tommy) Harold Flowers, (22 de diciembre de 1905 - 28 de octubre de 1998) era un ingeniero británico que diseñó Colossus, la primera computadora electrónica digital y programable. Biografía. Flowers nació en Londres.
19 de may. de 2023 · Learn about Tommy Flowers, the British engineer who built the world's first programmable computer, Colossus, to break the German Enigma code during World War Two. Discover his early career, his innovative work, and his legacy in computing history.
6 de sept. de 2021 · 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 costs to create a masterpiece of engineering.
Flowers was rewarded with an MBE and a £1,000 grant, which did not even cover his investment in Colossus. His work was not publicly revealed until the 1970s. Today, the place of Colossus in computing history is assured, and Flowers is acknowledged as the principal architect of the machine.
16 de ago. de 2018 · One such codebreaker was Thomas H. “Tommy” Flowers, the engineer who designed the Colossus code-breaking machines. On the heels of Enigma, the code Turing is credited with cracking, the German army asked the Lorenz Company to create the more complex Lorenz teleprinter cipher, which earned the codename “Tunny” by the British.
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).
