Thomas Harold Flowers

E1019457

Thomas Harold Flowers was a British engineer best known for designing Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, used to help decrypt German codes during World War II.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Thomas Harold Flowers canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf computer pioneer
electrical engineer
human
awardReceived Member of the Order of the British Empire
causeOfDeath heart failure
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1905-12-22
dateOfDeath 1998-10-28
designed Colossus Mark I NERFINISHED
Colossus Mark II NERFINISHED
developedFor Bletchley Park NERFINISHED
Government Code and Cypher School NERFINISHED
educatedAt East London College NERFINISHED
University of London
employer General Post Office NERFINISHED
Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill NERFINISHED
familyName Flowers NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork computer engineering
cryptography
electrical engineering
telecommunications
givenName Thomas NERFINISHED
hasChild John Flowers NERFINISHED
Kenneth Flowers NERFINISHED
honouredFor services to cryptography and codebreaking during World War II
knownFor codebreaking at Bletchley Park
designing Colossus
developing the world’s first programmable electronic computer
languageOfWorkOrName English
middleName Harold NERFINISHED
militaryConflict World War II NERFINISHED
nationality British
notableWork Colossus computer NERFINISHED
Heath Robinson codebreaking machine NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth London, England
surface form: London

Poplar NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Barnes NERFINISHED
London, England
surface form: London
residence London, England
surface form: London
sexOrGender male
spouse Ethel Flowers NERFINISHED
usedFor decryption of German teleprinter traffic
usedTechnology vacuum tubes
workedOn Lorenz cipher decryption
workLocation Bletchley Park NERFINISHED
Dollis Hill NERFINISHED

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tommy Flowers birthName Thomas Harold Flowers