This is Tommy Flowers

This is Tommy Flowers

Tommy Flowers was the creator of the first practical electronic computer. He was the technical innovator behind the design of the Colossus computer used to break the German Lorenz teleprinter codes during the Second World War. It is an achievement that few know thanks to the Official Secrets Act and Tommy Flowers's sense of honour and duty to his country. Colossus was a secret until 1974 and the program's algorithms are still secret.

This is Antonio Meucci

This is Antonio Meucci

An Invention none of us could live without, a tool of modern communications so basic that many of today's business and social activities would be inconceivable in its absence, the telephone, is at the centre of a series of events so strange as to amount to a "whodunit."

So what's the storey behind these people.  How do we know that they are the creators of these inventions.  Click on their names and see how we have been misled.