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In 1943 Tommy Flowers designed and built the Colossus, the world's first fully functional, electronic, digital and programmable computer.
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Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist from the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943.
The Mk I Colossus was built between March and December 1943 by Tommy Flowers and his colleagues at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in London and then shipped to Bletchley Park in January 1944.
* The ten British Colossus computers ( used for cryptanalysis starting in 1943 ) were designed by Tommy Flowers.
* Tommy John ( born 1943 ), All-Star pitcher who lived in Franklin Lakes while with the New York Yankees.
Scottish defender Hugh Kelly had arrived at Blackpool in 1943, as had fellow defender Tommy Garrett in 1942.
Between 1943 and 1952, Bellson performed with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Duke Ellington ( for whom he wrote " Skin Deep " and " The Hawk Talks ").
* Tommy Watson ( footballer born 1943 ), Scottish former footballer
The first incarnation of the Jolly Rogers was established on January 1, 1943 at NAS Norfolk, as VF-17 by Lieutenant Commander John T. " Tommy " Blackburn.
* Tommy Corrigan ( 1903 – 1943 ), Australian rules footballer and soldier
Other guest stars with a Lassie past included Roddy McDowall, who had starred in the first movie Lassie Come Home ( 1943 ) and Tommy Rettig, who had played " Jeff Miller " in the early years of the original television series ( later syndicated as Jeff's Collie ).
* Tommy Graham ( born 1943 ), Scottish Member of Parliament for Renfrew West and Inverclyde
In 1943 the world's first programmable electronic computer, Colossus Mark 1 was built by Tommy Flowers and his team, followed in 1944 and 1945 by nine Colossus Mark 2s.
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* Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers ( 1943 ; posthumous )
Waters liked to give his friends new nicknames, and it was he who first began calling Milstead ' Divine ', later remarking that he had borrowed the name from a character in Jean Genet's novel Our Lady of the Flowers ( 1943 ), a controversial book about homosexuals living on the margins of Parisian society, which Waters – who was himself a homosexual – was reading at the time.
In his poem, " Desert Flowers " ( 1943 ), Douglas mentions World War I poet Isaac Rosenberg claiming that he is only repeating what Rosenberg has already written.
In February 1943, Flowers proposed an electronic system, which he called Colossus, using over 1, 800 valves ( vacuum tubes ).
Our Lady of the Flowers ( Notre Dame des Fleurs ) is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, first published in 1943.
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From 1943 to 1945 he designed the first high-level programming language, Plankalkül.
The weapon was designed in 1943 by engineer Henryk Strąpoć and produced in several underground facilities ; the name is a reference to the resistance fighters who used the weapon.
Notwithstanding, the idea of programming language existed earlier ; the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer was Plankalkül, developed for the German Z3 by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945.
Less frequently, individual strategic attacks are made against ' point ' targets, such as Britain's RAF Bomber Command attacks against the Ruhr dams by means of the bouncing bomb designed by Barnes Wallis in May 1943.
Between 1941 and 1943, Harrison designed and built the Clinton Hill Coops, a 12-building coop complex split between two “ campuses ” along Clinton Ave. in Brooklyn, New York, to house the Brooklyn Navy Yards workers.
Plankalkül (, " Plan Calculus ") is a computer language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945.
The Knarr ( plural Knarrer ) is a Bermuda rigged, long keeled, sailing yacht designed in 1943 by Norwegian Erling L. Kristofersen.
In 1943, the federal government designed and built a housing plan known as Mooncrest for defense workers.
The PIAT was designed in 1942 in response to the British Army's need for a more effective infantry anti-tank weapon, and entered service in 1943.
Inside the North Tower two mythologic designed rooms were created ( 1938 – 1943 ):
This technological marvel was designed by the Czech architects Miroslav Lorenc ( 1896 – 1943 ) and František Lydie Gahura ( 1896 – 1958 ).
Activities included design, construction, and demonstration of voice-modulation equipment for a 10 cm magnetron ( July 1943 ), a microwave triode oscillator at 25 cm using cylindrical cavity resonators, equipment designed for microwave radar in field use ( wavemeter, echo box, thermistor power meter, etc.
In August 1943 and March 1944, the Polish Secret State announced their long-term plan, partially designed to counter attractivness of some of the Communists ' proposals.
In 1943, a green sleeveless jacket was designed to wear over the Denison smock when parachuting.
In 1943 he designed and built an experimental cleaning unit to be used in case of gas attack.
The grieving memorial figure on his grave was designed by Irene Castle's friend, the American sculptor Sally James Farnham ( 1869 – 1943 ).
The 60-foot ( 18 m ) diesel-powered cabin cruiser was built in 1943 and designed to accommodate 12 people.
The SKS is a Soviet semi-automatic rifle chambered for the 7. 62x39mm round, designed in 1943 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov.
In 1943, MSU art professor Leonard D. Jungwirth designed a statue for the university, which had to be cast in terra cotta because of World War II rationing.
Built from 1943, the 30 locomotives in the class were designed to haul express trains and replace the C36 class on these premium workings.
This Is the Army is a 1943 American wartime motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz, and a wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U. S. during World War II, directed by Sgt.
In August 1943, Kirtland Field became host to a USAAF Provisional B-24 Liberator Pilot Transition School designed to train airplane commanders.
In about 1943 he designed a 27 ft lifeboat to be dropped from Vickers Warwick aircraft when rescuing downed aircrew or mariners.
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Other luthiers who built mandolins included Rafaele Calace ( 1863 onwards ) in Naples, Luigi Embergher ( 1856 – 1943 ) in Rome and Arpino, the Ferrari family ( 1716 onwards, also originally mandolino makers ) in Rome, and De Santi ( 1834 – 1916 ) in Rome.
The Japanese troops built an airfield on Nauru which was bombed for the first time on 25 March 1943, preventing food supplies from being flown to Nauru.
Dudley's vocoder was used in the SIGSALY system, which was built by Bell Labs engineers in 1943.
The dam, built in 1914, was bombed and destroyed by British aircraft in May 1943, causing massive destruction and approximately 70 deaths downstream, but was rebuilt within four months.
The Manzanar cemetery site is marked by a monument that was built by incarceree stonemason Ryozo Kado in 1943.
The major shipbuilder, the Consolidated Steel Corporation was located in the town of Orange, and among the warships that it built were the ( 1942 ), the first warship built there, the ( 1943 ), and the ( 1945 – 46 ), the last warship built there.
In the meantime, the X-10 Graphite Reactor, a scaled-down version of the Hanford reactors, was built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and went into operation in November 1943.
During World War II, a 422 foot Liberty ship named in his honor, SS Christy Mathewson, was built in Richmond, CA in 1943.
He attended college and law school at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and built a solid reputation practicing law in St. Louis between 1928 and 1943.
The house shown at the end of the film is a 1703 square foot single family home built in 1943 at 24 Derby Road, Port Washington, New York.
* 1943 – Birmingham Army Hospital built for paraplegic World War II wounded at Balboa Blvd.
They would lead the team that built the Aggregate-4 ( A-4 ) rocket, which became the first vehicle to reach outer space during its test flight program in 1942 and 1943.
In 1943 they built massive bunkers along the coast in preparation for launching missiles on the southeast of England.
A 70-bed hospital was built in 1943, as was a school for children of the internees.
Vanport, built north of Portland in 1943 to house workers for Kaiser Shipyards, was destroyed by a flood five years later.
It was built in 1943 by volunteers
In 1943, a camp for German prisoners-of-war was built west of downtown Windsor, on the site of a former migrant labor camp.
The Army also built four additional runways at Moody during 1943 for a total of eight.
Rio Vista is home to Devil's Tower, a stone clock tower that is claimed to be haunted, that was originally built by sugar baron Manuel Rionda ( 1854 – 1943 ) in order to allow his wife to see New York from the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.
Further floods in 1943, 1945, 1946 and 1948 hampered the growth of the community, and it was not until dams were built in the 1950s to regulate the flow of the Willamette that Keizer began to flourish.
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