Flowers, Thomas Harold

Flowers, Thomas Harold
▪ 1999

      British engineer who led the developers of Colossus, one of the first electronic digital computers, which broke complex codes used by the Germans during World War II and thus enabled the Allies to gain valuable military information; the use of Colossus was said to have shortened the war by two years (b. Dec. 22, 1905, London, Eng.—d. Oct. 28, 1998, London).

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