Alan Hornsby 11/7/14 1104-003 Flowers for Tommy (Thomas “Tommy” Flowers) Tommy was born Thomas Harold Flowers in 1905 on December 22nd. Tommy’s early life tended to remain in his birthplace which was London’s East Side. Even as a young man Tommy showed interest in engineering. Unlike his father who was a bricklayer, “At the age of 16 [Thomas] took an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering at the Royal Arsenal”. (Reuver and Simons 1) Despite working with mechanical engineering, Thomas would turn his attention to communications especially after graduating with “a degree in electrical engineering at the University of London.” (“Tommy Flowers” 1). Upon earning his degree, Tommy later found a job working for the “GPO as an engineer” “in 1926” …show more content…
Eventually a group was formed with precisely that purpose. Members of the group would consist of members like Max Newman, Alan Turing and by request Thomas Flowers. Initially Flowers was brought in to fix Newman’s machine, ‘Heath Robinson’ which “kept breaking down” (“Tommy Flowers” 1), but after analyzing the device Flowers was convinced he could develop an even better machine. Despite criticism that the idea would not be efficient Thomas, while using mostly his own investments and “his dedicated team [was] able to demonstrate” what would be known as “Colossus at Dollis Hill in November 1943.” (Reuver and Simons 1) Surprisingly the project for Colossus took Thomas and his collaborators “just 11 months”. (Reuver and Simons 1) Sadly, like anything groundbreaking, Colossus had its own issues that needed to be …show more content…
The glass valves would constantly break, which would cause inefficiency and delay critical info pertaining the war. Rather quickly Thomas realized that his machine was breaking valves due to temperature, the more frequently it was turned off and on then the more likely the valves would break. The simple solution was to leave the Colossus more or less always on to maintain a constant level of efficiency. Throughout the war, “In total, 10 Colossi were built and installed…with an 11th being ready by the end of the war.” (Reuver and Simons 1) The notable day in June known as D-Day owes the majority of its success to the Colossus computers. After the wars’ end, Thomas’s life greatly declined in quality. In summary the British government paid him a “reward of £1000” (“Thomas Flowers” 1) which, even before he split the money with his team didn’t come anywhere near the monetary Thomas personally invested in designing the first programmable computer. The catch to this was all of Thomas work became heavily classified. “Even in 2011,” long after his death “some of the work done by Tommy Flowers [remained] classified.” (“Tommy Flowers”
“Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle,” (John 19:17-18). Jesus Christ’s valiant life was terminated with a horrendous execution. Tom Robinson’s did as well. He lived his life in the name in the name of others, helping everyone that he could, going out of his way to save people, even Judas, who would betray him. Tom did this aswell, constantly assisting Mayella, she who would betray him in court. Jesus had followers who believed in his message, just as Tom had believers in his innocence. Jesus and his followers would face persecution, just as Tom and hisi believers would. The judgements and death sentences of Jesus and Tom would make them become martyrs. The Martyrdoms would be essential for their causes. Many aspects of Tom Robinson’s life and death
The surgery that every pitcher has a nightmare of having is Tommy John. Tommy John surgery is one of the biggest surgeries in the sport of baseball. The most common players to have this surgery are pitchers. This surgery has made many players become more mentally and physically tougher and realize that you will never know when the last time you might be able to throw a ball. The first Tommy John Surgery happened in 1974 by an orthopedic surgeon Dr. Frank Jobe. Just this past season in 2014 there were 29 pitchers that had Tommy John Surgery (Tommy John surgery Wikipedia). Tommy John surgery is a renowned procedure that Dr. Jobe introduced to the health care professionals to reconstruct your ulnar collateral tendon
WOOSTER — For their outstanding commitment to the Wooster Post and the public it serves, recently Justin Ross was named Trooper of the Year and Heather Carr was named Dispatcher of the Year.
This week, has been an amazing week of basketball for Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Lou Williams. Williams, who is the Lakers' sixth man coming off the bench, has been tasked with the duty of shouldering the offensive workload for a team without Jose Caledron, D'Angelo Russell, and Nick Young.
Tommy John surgery is a surgery common in the MLB for pitchers who have hurt their arm. Injury to the UCL occur when a player, commonly pitchers, throw a baseball repeatedly. Unfortunately, Baseball is a repetitive game especially for pitchers. When a pitcher gains muscles that help him throw harder, the ligaments and tendons are often left out. Pitching presses the body to its limits and with all the stress eventually, the tendons and ligaments will not be able to take it. Properly known as ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction (or UCL), is a surgical operation in which a ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body, often the forearm or hamstring of the patient. Since the first patient, with the name
Bill Robinson is one of the most famous tap dancers that has ever lived. To most people, Bill Robinson was known for being Shirley Temple’s tap-dancing partner in the 1930’s. Bill Robinson nickname was “Bojangles”. Bojangles stood for a cheerful, happy-go-lucky demeanor for his white friends, despite the meaning being on opposite ends in the black community. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson was a man that claimed he could run faster backwards than most men could run forwards.
These projects come to live in the Research division at IBM. In 2005 Paul Horn, director of the division wanted to try to create a machine able to pass the Turing Test. No machine had done it. But researchers didn’t believe that it would get the public’s attention in the way that Deep Blue had. Horn thought of another game where it would...
Alan Turning is known to be a pioneer of many facets of the computer age. The digital computer, artificial intelligence, memory subroutines, the Turning Machine, the Turing Test, and the application of algorithms to computers are all ideas somehow related to this man.
The history of computers is an amazing story filled with interesting statistics. “The first computer was invented by a man named Konrad Zuse. He was a German construction engineer, and he used the machine mainly for mathematic calculations and repetition” (Bellis, Inventors of Modern Computer). The invention shocked the world; it inspired people to start the development of computers. Soon after,
When World War II broke out in 1939 the United States was severely technologically disabled. There existed almost nothing in the way of mathematical innovations that had been integrated into military use. Therefore, the government placed great emphasis on the development of electronic technology that could be used in battle. Although it began as a simple computer that would aid the army in computing firing tables for artillery, what eventually was the result was the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer). Before the ENIAC it took over 20 hours for a skilled mathematician to complete a single computation for a firing situation. When the ENIAC was completed and unveiled to the public on Valentine’s Day in 1946 it could complete such a complex problem in 30 seconds. The ENIAC was used quite often by the military but never contributed any spectacular or necessary data. The main significance of the ENIAC was that it was an incredible achievement in the field of computer science and can be considered the first digital and per...
Although the majority of people cannot imagine life without computers, they owe their gratitude toward an algorithm machine developed seventy to eighty years ago. Although the enormous size and primitive form of the object might appear completely unrelated to modern technology, its importance cannot be over-stated. Not only did the Turing Machine help the Allies win World War II, but it also laid the foundation for all computers that are in use today. The machine also helped its creator, Alan Turing, to design more advanced devices that still cause discussion and controversy today. The Turing Machine serves as a testament to the ingenuity of its creator, the potential of technology, and the glory of innovation.
Ceruzzi, P. E. (1998). A history of modern computing (pp. 270-272). London, England: The MIT Press.
How old is the average student when they start college? Typically they are 18 to 20 years of age now think of all the types of pressure that they experience such as school, work, boyfriend/girlfriend and possible living expenses add that to balancing time and most students are faced with chaos and a bunch of built up pressure. The main stressors I’d like to focus on today are picking a major to turn into a life long career, independence and lastly time management. Many college students are faced with deciding which major they would like to pursue after graduating high school, but for a select few they finish off with a two year academic transfer degree and have no clue what they’d like to major in as their dream job. In the beginning of what one job we want to do when we grow up for boys it’s often a police officer
Built in to his machine were operations that included everything a modern general-purpose computer would need. It was programmed by--and stored data on--cards with holes
The fist computer, known as the abacus, was made of wood and parallel wires on which beads were strung. Arithmetic operations were performed when the beads were moved along the wire according to “programming” rules that had to be memorized by the user (Soma, 14). The second earliest computer, invented by Blaise Pascal in 1694, was a “digital calculating machine.” Pascal designed this first known digital computer to help his father, who was a tax collector. Pascal’s computer could only add numbers, and they had to be entered by turning dials (Soma, 32). It required a manual process like its ancestor, the abacus. Automation was introduced in the early 1800’s by a mathematics professor named Charles Babbage. He created an automatic calculation machine that was steam powered and stored up to 1000 50-digit numbers. Unlike its two earliest ancestors, Babbage’s invention was able to perform various operations. It relied on cards with holes punched in them, which are called “punch cards.” These cards carried out the programming and storing operations for the machine. Unluckily, Babbage’s creation flopped due to the lack of mechanical precision and the lack of demand for the product (Soma, 46). The machine could not operate efficiently because technology was t adequate to make the machine operate efficiently Computer interest dwindled for many years, and it wasn’t until the mid-1800’s that people became interested in them once again.