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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.
Tommy Flowers MBE [d] was a senior electrical engineer and Head of the Switching Group at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill. Prior to his work on Colossus, he had been involved with GC&CS at Bletchley Park from February 1941 in an attempt to improve the Bombes that were used in the cryptanalysis of the German Enigma cipher machine ...
Most of the cryptanalysts in the Testery died before they could tell their stories. For the first time, on 25 October 2011, a BBC Timewatch programme titled Code-breakers: Bletchley Park’s Lost Heroes, about the Testery, Tunny, Bill Tutte and Tommy Flowers, was produced, featuring testimony from Jerry Roberts. [3]
The play focuses on Tommy Flowers, a "social misfit", a "zany, dangerous rebel." The play takes place in the time when there were clear divisions between Youth and Age, Rules and Freedom. [ 6 ] There is a "running commentary" about the 1960s/early 1970s "free love sexual liberation."
Thomas Flowers may refer to: Tommy Flowers (1905–1998), British engineer; Thomas Flowers (cricketer, born 1988), English cricketer; Thomas Flowers (cricketer, born 1868) (1868–1939), English cricketer and umpire; Thomas Flowers (born 1967), vocalist and guitarist with Oleander
The main engineering design was the work of Frank Morrell [4] at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in North London, with his colleague Tommy Flowers designing the "Combining Unit". [5] Dr C. E. Wynn-Williams from the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern produced the high-speed electronic valve and relay counters. [5]
This lab was headed by John Flood, who had been a founder member of Tommy Flowers' electronic switching team at Dollis Hill. The Siemens team included an engineer called Jim Warman , whose trunking ideas (sectionalisation, serial trunking, line scanning, route choice, repeat attempt etc.), which were to be central to the development of the ...
Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, FRS [1] (7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984), generally known as Max Newman, was a British mathematician and codebreaker.His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, [6] the world's first operational, programmable electronic computer, and he established the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester, which ...