Tommy Flowers

Tommy Flowers

Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.

Read more about Tommy Flowers:  Early Life, World War II, Post-war Work and Retirement

Famous quotes containing the words tommy and/or flowers:

    Tommy: Life is short.
    Alice Hyatt: So are you.
    Robert Getchell, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Tommy (Alfred Lutter)

    The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,—not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)