Tommy Flowers

March 10, 2024
Entrepreneur

Quick Facts

Tommy Flowers
Date Of Birth Dec 22, 1905(1905-12-22)
Age 119
Date Of Death October 28, 1998, Mill Hill, United Kingdom
Country United States
Horoscope Sagittarius

Tommy Flowers Biography

Birthday Dec 22
Birth Year 1905
Place Of Birth Montana

Tommy Flowers is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on December 22, 1905 in England, England, United Kingdom. As of June 1, 2023, Tommy has a net worth approximately $5 Million. His decryption enabled Dwight Eisenhower to know what was waiting for him during the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

Builder of the Colossus code-breaking programmable computer.

His contributions shortened WWII by two years and saved countless lives.

He married Eileen Margaret Green. The couple had two sons, John and Kenneth.

Tommy Flowers Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Entrepreneur
House Living in own house.

Tommy is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tommy Flowers 's net worth $5 Million.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Tommy Flowers Wife

According to our records, Tommy Flowers married to Eileen Margaret Green. As of January 12, 2023, Tommy Flowers’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Tommy Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Tommy Flowers celebrates birthday on December 22 of every year.

What did Tommy Flowers invent?

Colossus computer

Did Tommy Flowers work with Alan Turing?

Flowers worked with Turing on the Enigma project and, in 1944, was later put in charge of the team that built Colossus.

What was Tommy Flowers known for?

Tommy Flowers went to work for the General Post Office in 1926, and in 1930 joined the GPO’s Research Section at Dollis Hill. He was a visionary, and foresaw an age in which electromechanical telephone exchanges could be replaced by purely electronic exchanges using valves.

What did Tommy Flowers get a degree in?

He was the son of a bricklayer. After taking an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering at Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, he would go on to earn an electrical engineering degree from the University of London. This degree was earned by taking evening classes until his eventual graduation.

Why was Colossus kept secret?

News of the existence of the Colossus, widely regarded as the first electronic computer, was kept top secret for 30 years partly because of the sophistication of its methods to help break Lorenz messages by finding the frequently changing wheel patterns of the Lorenz encryption machine.

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