To progress in the industry work is required. Many hours of study equal a good result and good exam passes. Wasted time is wasted progress. There was a young man who was born in the East End of London in Poplar. He came from humble origins. His dad was a bricklayer. He decided to study mechanical engineering. But he was so keen to learn that he also studied at evening classes at the University of London. He studied Electrical Engineering. He was skilled in the electronics of the day. He eventually got work with the G.P.O. (General Post Office) in telephone work. During World War 2 he was called upon, due to a request by Alan Turing, to build the world's first programmable computer to assist in code breaking. Flowers built a computer as a decoder to assist in breaking German codes for the relay based Bombe machine. These codes were German Enigma codes.
Tommy Flowers was the lad's name. Thomas Harold Flowers BSc., DSc, M.B.E. 1905 - 1998.
At the I.E.T's London Savoy Place there is a Flowers' Room, and also a Turing Lecture theatre, both very modern and impressive rooms. The Turing Lecture theatre has many free lunchtime lectures which are every interesting.
So, students, study hard, improve your lot and life, become fulfilled with your achievements and have fun.
Good luck,
Z.
