Charles Wheatstone entered into a joint partnership with William Cooke and this led to the foundation of the English Telegraph Company which eventually became t

Charles Wheatstone entered into a joint partnership with William Cooke and this led to the foundation of the English Telegraph Company which eventually became the GPO. The money he got was used to fund Ada Lovelace (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#First_computer_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#First_computer_pr...) to translate the notes on Babbage's lectures into English and to create the notes that included the first computer program. Subsequently the GPO funded the development of the Colossus computer by Tommy Flowers according to the work of Max Newman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers#World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers#World_War_II)