Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

Cătălin Roșioru

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing? The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of computing? T his is a story you know, right? It’s early in the war and western Europe has fallen.

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