Talk - The Power of Three: the Story of Thomas Fowler

Fowler

Wednesday 23rd October at 2pm. 

Cost £4 for members, £8 for non-members.

'Local Man invents Computer'. A startling headline for a local Devon paper, and one that begged the question, 'Who was Thomas Fowler?'

Thomas Fowler was a mathematical genius who had the potential to turn the history of computing upside down. Modern assessments have even claimed that computers could have been invented a century earlier because of his work. So why are so few people aware of this humble, self-taught genius from a small market town in Devon. Tragically bad fortune and prejudice dogged his footsteps and his ground-breaking work lapsed into obscurity. Until now.