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Flowers, Tommy

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Tommy Flowers Born December 22, 1905 - died October 28, 1998. Creator of the world's first digital computer. Employed by the British Post Office, he worked in the 1930s on converting England's mechanical telephone switching system to an electronic system, but without much success. During WWII he was recuited by Bletchley Park where he applied his experience in telephone systems switching to build [MORE]


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1. Tommy Flowers - Various comments and quotes about Flowers and his work.
2. BT History: Tommy Flowers (1905-1998) : creating the colossus - Biography and photograph.
3. Newsbytes: Computer Pioneer Tommy Flowers Dies 11/09/98. - Obituary.



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