Tommy flowers

History of Thomas Harold Flowers

By perinsalex13

  • Thomas Harold Flowers is born

    22 December 1905, he was born in Poplar, London.

  • The Marriage of Tommy and Eileen Margeret Green

  • The birth of Kenneth Flowers

    In 1938 Tommy Flowers had his first son Kenneth

  • Tommy made his first contact with Alan Turing (co-inventor of Colussus)

    Alan Turing contacted Tommy to ask him to help him in the wartime codebreaking effort at Bletchley Park

  • The Birth of John Flowers

    In 1941 Tommy had his second child

  • The proposoal of Colossus

    In 1943 colossus was propsed to be made using 1,800 thermionic valves. These are equivalent to batteries in our laptops now a days.

  • Tommy and the British Empire

    Tommy was given membership of the Empire for his efforts during the war and was aloowed to decide what went on in the great British empire.

  • Mark 1 Coloussus

    In 1943 the Mark 1 colossus was created which ran on 1,500 vavles so making it faster.

  • Revaling of designs

    After the war Tommy released the designs of the collusus's

  • Thomas Harold Flowers dies aged 92

    28 October 1998