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    The Post Office Research Station was first established as a separate section of the General Post Office in 1909. In 1921, the Research Station moved to...
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    engineer Tommy Flowers and his team at the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill. Under the Post Office Act 1969, the assets of the GPO were transferred...
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    BT Research is the research arm of BT Group, formerly part of the British Post Office. The company was first established in 1921 as the Post Office Research...
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  • The Office of the National Administrative Committee of Postdoctoral Researchers (Chinese: 全国博士后管理委员会办公室) regulates all postdoctoral mobile stations (Chinese:...
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    Mead, and White's original Pennsylvania Station across Eighth Avenue, which originally faced the General Post Office Building. A flight of 31 steps, extending...
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    Force Station at Martlesham Heath, near Ipswich in the English county of Suffolk. When the site opened it was known as the Post Office Research Station, but...
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    code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built at the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill and the rarely used alternative Cabinet War Room...
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    Dollis Hill, northwest London, NW2 7DZ; under a corner of the Post Office Research Station site. The name derives from the nearby Paddock Road NW2, in turn...
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    Troll is a Norwegian research station located at Jutulsessen, 235 kilometres (146 mi) from the coast in the eastern part of Princess Martha Coast in Queen...
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    main engineering design was the work of Frank Morrell at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in North London, with his colleague Tommy Flowers...
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    The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive...
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    and not by a stored program. Colossus was designed by General Post Office (GPO) research telephone engineer Tommy Flowers based on plans developed by mathematician...
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    In Canada and the United States, a railway post office, commonly abbreviated as RPO, was a railroad car that was normally operated in passenger service...
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    Tommy Flowers (category Civil servants in the General Post Office)
    the telecommunications branch of the General Post Office (GPO), moving to the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in Middlesex in 1930. In 1935...
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    General Post Office, Kolkata is the central post office of the city of Kolkata, India, and the biggest post office of West Bengal. This post offiice also...
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  • 2004) was a communications engineer and director of research at the Post Office Research Station, between 1966 and 1975. In 1972 he presented the Bernard...
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    Initially, it was planned that Tommy Flowers, the engineer at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in north London, who had been responsible for...
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    A post office box (commonly abbreviated as P.O. box, or also known as a postal box) is a uniquely addressable lockable box located on the premises of...
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    The United States Post Office Plymouth Station is a former post office located at 860 Penniman Avenue in Plymouth, Michigan. It was listed on the National...
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    as the Post Office, it is the most widely distributed postal system in the world, and India is the country that has the largest number of post offices...
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    The General Post Office (abbreviation GPO, commonly known as the Sydney GPO) is a heritage-listed landmark building located in Martin Place, Sydney, New...
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    was designed and built by Tommy Flowers and his team at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill. The prototype first worked in December 1943,...
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  • Allen Coombs (category Civil servants in the General Post Office)
    – 30 January 1995) was a British electronics engineer at the Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill. Coombs was one of the principal designers of the...
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    of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research. College Station's origins date from 1860, when the Houston and Texas Central...
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    were developed and built by Tommy Flowers, of the Dollis Hill Post Office Research Station, using algorithms developed by Bill Tutte and his team of mathematicians...
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    The Rothera Research Station is a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) base on the Antarctic Peninsula, located at Rothera Point, Adelaide Island. Rothera also...
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    the General Post Office (GPO) as the Army Postmaster to accompany his expedition to Helder. Thomas Reynolds, as the British Post Office Agent in Lisbon...
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    area, and by 1949, Neasden's population was over 13,000. The Post Office Research Station was located nearby in Dollis Hill. There the Colossus computers...
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  • high-level (Fish or Tunny) German ciphers. Lynch joined the Post Office Research Station in 1936, specialising in the measurement of the electrical and...
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    Berrima Post Office is a heritage-listed post office at Argyle Street, Berrima, in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. It was built in...
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