- Born
- December 22, 1905
- Died
- October 28, 1998 (aged 92)
- Known as
- technician, engineer, computer scientist
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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