Turing gets his mug on a Nifty, but no Colossal Flowers

I think it's superb news that Sir Alan Turing has been chosen for the face of the new £50 note.  While Turing developed the electromechanical Bombe first used in Poland, he did not design and build Colossus.  Colossus was designed and built by a man from the General Post Office, a man who dreamed of one day having a telephone exchange that was fully automatic with an electronic machine replacing the many human ears and hands and plug boards and wires.  This man was Tommy Flowers.

Flowers designed and built Colossus, with help and input from Turing, but Flowers was the inspiration and driving force behind the building of this amazing machine.

Flowers seems to have been mostly forgotten, with many people mistakenly believing Turing created the Colossi, instead of having just worked on them.  Tommy Flowers was someone who was a real British hero, an inspirational individual who deserves recognition for his amazing work.

So every time you see a new £50 and Turing, think of Tommy Flowers - the real father of modern computing.