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Tommy Flowers

British engineer, helped to design Colossus during World War II (1905–1998)

  • Fame52.4
  • Momentum0.7
  • Wikipedia4.1K
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Lived 1905–1998, aged 93United Kingdom
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    24 languages
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  • Era
    1905–1998
    Aged 93
  • Awards
    3
    recognised works
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Updated 2026-08-13

Thomas Harold Flowers 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.

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