Thomas Harold Flowers 1905 - 1998

occupation:
Engineer
Nationality:
British
born in:
Poplar, Tower Hamlets, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Thomas 'Tommy' Flowers designed the codebreaking computer 'Colossus'. 1957 - As Post Office chief engineer, Flowers also designed an electronic random-number generator, 'ERNIE'. This was used to pick premium bond holder winners.