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    Harold Flowers MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British General Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed...
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    was designed by General Post Office (GPO) research telephone engineer Tommy Flowers based on plans developed by mathematician Max Newman at the Government...
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  • Thomas Flowers may refer to: Tommy Flowers (1905–1998), British engineer Thomas Flowers (cricketer, born 1988), English cricketer Thomas Flowers (cricketer...
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  • Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? is a play by Terrence McNally. Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut...
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    has been dating actor Casey Affleck since November 2021. McArdle, Tommy. "Flowers Blossoming to Celebrate Caylee Cowan's Birthday". People Magazine....
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    programmable digital electronic computer. This was designed and built by Tommy Flowers and his team at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill. The...
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  • computer Typex SYKO Ultra Alan Turing W. T. Tutte John Tiltman Max Newman Tommy Flowers I. J. Good John Herivel Leo Marks Gordon Welchman Poem code Magic (cryptography)...
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    Research Station at Dollis Hill in North London, with his colleague Tommy Flowers designing the "Combining Unit". Dr C. E. Wynn-Williams from the Telecommunications...
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    early form of programming language. Initially, it was planned that Tommy Flowers, the engineer at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in...
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    the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) at Malvern and Tommy Flowers of the General Post Office (GPO). The other, code-named Mammoth, was...
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    youngest son in The Revenger's Tragedy (Nov-December, 1970), Tommy's nephew in Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? (January 1971), Young Siward in Macbeth (Feb-March...
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    Survival of St. Joan Performer Anderson Theatre, Off-Broadway Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? The Men Eastside Playhouse, Broadway 1974 Bad Habits Roy Pitt/Mr...
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    and in a large installation too many would fail in too short a time". Tommy Flowers, who later designed Colossus, "discovered that, so long as valves were...
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    cam settings of Tunny's wheels. He also introduced the Tunny team to Tommy Flowers who, under the guidance of Max Newman, went on to build the Colossus...
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    the same time that digital calculation replaced analog. The engineer Tommy Flowers, working at the Post Office Research Station in London in the 1930s...
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    tape for input and as the main (non-volatile) storage medium. Engineer Tommy Flowers joined the telecommunications branch of the General Post Office in 1926...
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    into a block of luxury flats and an access road named Flowers Close, in honour of Tommy Flowers. Much of the rest of the site contains affordable housing...
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    functional and programmable computer using electromechanical parts. In 1943, Tommy Flowers designed and built the Colossus, the world's first fully functional...
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    Olympian Games. He also appeared in The Revenger's Tragedy, Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?, Macbeth, and Woyzeck and Play. He also appeared in a double feature...
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  • Flowers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A. D. Flowers (1917–2001), American visual effects artist Adam Flowers, American singer...
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  • campus in 2002. It is a member of the Sixth Form Colleges' Association. Tommy Flowers MBE, who designed and built the WWII Colossus computer at the Post Office...
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  • contributors, mathematician W. T. "Bill" Tutte and electrical engineer Tommy Flowers, are mentioned in the film. The Colossus computer they built goes unmentioned...
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  • John Ambrose Fleming Inventor of the thermionic valve (vacuum tube) Tommy Flowers Designer of the first programmable digital electronic computer Jay Forrester...
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    electronic computer, 'Colossus', was designed and constructed there by Tommy Flowers and other GPO engineers. The Telegraph Office was slightly damaged by...
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    born out of a revolution. It starred Melina Mercouri. In Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? (1971) he celebrates while mourning the ineffectiveness of the...
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    Research Station by a team led by Sidney Broadhurst. The designers were Tommy Flowers and Harry Fensom and it derives from Colossus, one of the world's first...
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  • Fensom 2006, pp. 300–301. Flowers 2006, p. 80. Copeland 2006, p. 75. Flowers 1983, pp. 245–252. Good & Michie 1992. Flowers 1983, p. 247. Kenyon 2019...
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    digital computers. The Colossus computers were developed and built by Tommy Flowers, of the Dollis Hill Post Office Research Station, using algorithms developed...
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    to simulate V-2 rocket trajectories. The Colossus (1943), built by Tommy Flowers, and the Atanasoff–Berry computer (1942) used thermionic valves (vacuum...
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    Street is named after him Alfie Doughty, footballer for Luton Town Tommy Flowers, designer of the first programmable electronic computer used for code...
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