Man Crush Monday: Celebrating Tommy Flowers, Pioneering British Scientist and Engineer

An overview of Tommy Flowers, a notable British scientist and engineer whose groundbreaking work in the early 20th century significantly advanced telecommunications and computing.

Man Crush Monday: Celebrating Tommy Flowers, Pioneering British Scientist and Engineer
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82 views • May 14, 2018
Man Crush Monday: Celebrating Tommy Flowers, Pioneering British Scientist and Engineer

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Tommy Flowers was a very important British scientist and engineer during the first half of the 20th century. Not only did he do essential work in cracking secret German codes during World War II, he is usually credited with inventing (and building) the world’s first programmable electronic computer, the Colossus. He’s not as famous as Alan Turing, but he’s at least as important to history. Listen to our Man Crush Monday!

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