Thomas (Tommy) Harold Flowers, MBE (22 December 1905 - 28 October 1998) was a British engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed "Colossus", an early electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages. 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. Wikipedia
Flowers was involved in a perhaps even more remarkable achievement -- the breaking of the encyphered teleprinter communications used by Hitler to talk to his generals. www.fpp.co.uk/online/98/11/FlowersObit.html
The Design of Colossus THOMAS H. FLOWERS During World War 11 the German armed forces used machine-enciphered teleprinter messages for some of their high-level communications. www.ivorcatt.com/47c.htm
THOMAS H. FLOWERS: I tried to tell Bletchley Park what my ideas were, but you must understand the technology that I was using was then only just known to very few people in the whole world. www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2615decoding.html
Certainly, I believe that Flowers now deserves global credit for his genius and pioneering contribution to our young industry. c2.com/cgi/wiki?TommyFlowers
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