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20 de mar. de 2012 · Thomas Harold Flowers (22 de dezembro de 1905 – Londres, 8 de novembro de 1998), engenheiro inglês inventor do equipamento Colossus, (o primeiro computador eletrônico e digital programável), utilizado pelas forças aliadas durante a II Guerra Mundial para decifrar as comunicações militares alemãs.
Tommy Flowers, o inventor do primeiro computador programável, faleceu em 28 de outubro de 1998, aos 92 anos. Picture number: COM/B911217. Description: Wrens operating the ‘Colossus’ computer, 1943. Colossus was the world’s first electronic programmable computer, at Bletchley Park in Bedfordshire.
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.
6 de set. de 2021 · Learn about the life and achievements of Tommy Flowers, the electrical engineer who designed and built Colossus, the first programmable computer. Colossus was used to decode German messages during World War II and shortened the war by two years.
- Christopher Mcfadden
19 de mai. de 2023 · Learn about the life and achievements of Tommy Flowers, a British engineer and mathematician who designed and built Colossus, the first electronic and programmable computer. Discover how his work during World War Two helped break the German Enigma code and shaped the future of computing.
- Celeste Neill
index. Thomas H. (Tommy) Flowers. Builder of Colossus, the cryptanalytical machine designed by Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park, England, perhaps the first electronic computer in the UK. Education: BSc, London University, 1933; Honorary DSc, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1977.
Tommy Flowers was born in London's East End on 22 December 1905, the son of a bricklayer. After an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering, he earned a degree in electrical engineering at the University of London.
