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  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the trading floor of The Chemical Bank in the City of London, the capital's financial centre. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets. Large keyboards and hard drives and deep monitors were state of the art technology in the early 1990s.
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  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the currency trading floor of National Westminster Bank PLC in the City of London, the capital's financial centre. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets. A lady employee stares at her data near a large keyboard and hard drives and deep monitors were state of the art technology in the early 1990s.
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  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the trading floor of Barclays de Zoete Wedd in the City of London, the capital's financial centre. Screens glow with the most up to date trading figures and news items allowing traders to react instantly on the money markets.  .Employees talk on handsets or stare at their data near large keyboards and hard drives and deep monitors were state of the art technology in the early 1990s.
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  • An interior of office desks and 90s computers in the currency trading floor of National Westminster Bank PLC in London
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  • Screens from assorted media seen through a London window with street outside reflected.
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  • City workers carry office possessions including computer hard drives and files that were damaged by the IRA bomb that devastated the City of London's Bishopsgate area in 1993. Allowed to return to their desks to recover their data and working paperwork, they walk through the ancient streets en route to new emergency office elsewhere in the capital. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate. Buildings up to 500 metres away were damaged with one and a half million square feet (140,000 m) of office space being affected and over 500 tonnes of glass broken. Repair costs reached approx £350 million. It was said that Roman remains could be viewed at the bottom of the pit the bomb created. One person was killed when the one ton fertiliser bomb detonated directly outside the medieval St Ethelburga's church.
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  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.<br />
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A limited edition (2 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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  • Casually-dressed accountants work in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
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  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
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  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
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  • Casually-dressed accountants work in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters.
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  • Delivery men organise Apple Mac screens in the street, on 27th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Delivery men organise Apple Mac screens in the street, on 27th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • TV screens at Jupiter Control Center show launch readiness status of a European Space Agency's Ariane satellite rocket
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  • Security employed by contractor OCS monitors an X-ray machine at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Teams of 5-8 perform a rotational order of tasks, changing every 20 minutes: A loader (asking travellers to take off clothing, shoes etc); archway detectors; X-ray operator; liquid tester and bag searcher. The X-ray operator can earn a £50 bonus for a suspect item randomly inserted by undercover officials and known as an Airlock Find. Also, a Tip is a random image flashed on the screen that shows a suspect item they have to spot. A typical day of searched passengers is 25,000 passengers in T5. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • An analyst for the Enron Corporation, the American energy company based in Houston, Texas, stares transfixed into two computer monitors in the London office at Grosvenor Place, opposite the Queen's official residence, Buckingham Palace. Two Cross of St George flags perch to the tops of the screens. Informal dress was practised in this Enron company building before its eventual bankruptcy in late 2001, Enron employed around 21,000 people  and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, pulp and paper, and communications companies, with claimed revenues of $111 billion in 2000. Fortune named Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" but has since become a popular symbol of willful corporate fraud and corruption.
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  • A young lady European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control monitors rocket systems hours before a satellite launch
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  • A European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control monitors the rocket systems hours before satellite launch
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  • A European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control monitors rocket systems hours before a satellite launch
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  • Seen from a position on Southwark Bridge, we look westwards to see an office worker communicating on the telephone while referring to some paperwork. His computer monitor is on the desk next to him and beyond on the south bank, the evening sky is going purple and another office tower block's lights are on and the water of the River Thames is coloured blue. We see the office as a box, a work place where people are often separated from others by walls and partitions, creating an isolating work environment.
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  • Hours before a European Space Agency Ariane 5 rocket launch, a computer monitor displays cryogenic data at the CDL3 launch centre at ESA's Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana. It shows the status of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellant systems within a Vulcain engine. Stored in the launcher tanks and fed to the engine, they react chemically and expand in the engine combustion chamber then forced through the nozzle to provide the thrust that propels the vehicle into orbit. Cryogenic engines utilise propellants that are liquid under cryogenic conditions, at a temperature much lower than normal ambient conditions (-251°C for hydrogen and -184°C for oxygen). The advantage of cryogenic propellants is that they provide the highest thrust performance. .
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  • European Space Agency technicians at Ariane launch control monitor rocket systems hours before a satellite launch
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  • A Corporation of London CCTV car is parked on a taxi space to monitor a road junction, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • A Corporation of London CCTV car is parked on a taxi space to monitor a road junction, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • A Corporation of London CCTV car is parked on a taxi space to monitor a road junction, on 30th October 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Monitoring logistics by PC at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution warehouse depot at Waltham Point, London
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  • Maternity monitoring equipment in German Red Cross hospital, Berlin.
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  • A detail of 1990s technology at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK. ECMWF  is an international organisation supported by 31 States, its role is “to provide monthly and seasonal-to-interannual forecasts; to deliver real-time analyses and forecasts of atmospheric composition; to carry out climate monitoring through regular re-analyses of the Earth-system and to contribute towards the optimization of the Global Observing System.”
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  • An employee with 1990s technology at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK. ECMWF is an international organisation supported by 31 States, its role is “to provide monthly and seasonal-to-interannual forecasts; to deliver real-time analyses and forecasts of atmospheric composition; to carry out climate monitoring through regular re-analyses of the Earth-system and to contribute towards the optimization of the Global Observing System.” with
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  • An employee with 1990s weather chart technology at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK. ECMWF is an international organisation supported by 31 States, its role is “to provide monthly and seasonal-to-interannual forecasts; to deliver real-time analyses and forecasts of atmospheric composition; to carry out climate monitoring through regular re-analyses of the Earth-system and to contribute towards the optimization of the Global Observing System.”
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  • A detail of a computerized weather chart showing atmospheric pressure isobars across western Europe on 16/9/91 at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK. ECMWF  is an international organisation supported by 31 States, based in England, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom. Its role is "to provide monthly and seasonal-to-interannual forecasts; to deliver real-time analyses and forecasts of atmospheric composition; to carry out climate monitoring through regular re-analyses of the Earth-system and to contribute towards the optimization of the Global Observing System." Source: http://www.ecmwf.int/.
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  • Female security operative feels around a male passenger's leg for suspect items during search at Heathrow Airport's T5
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  • Female security operative feels around a male passenger's back for suspect items during search at Heathrow Airport's T5
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  • A male security operative uncovers forbidden bottle of Vodka among a passenger's hand baggage during search at Heathrow T5
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  • Female security operative feels around a lady passenger's back for suspect items during search at Heathrow Airport's T5
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  • A female security officer has spotted an abandoned bag with the words 'Giraffe To Go' on the side, inside a lift of Heathrow airport's Terminal 5. The woman talks urgently but calmly using her walkie-talkie. She needs to report it to her controllers as a suspicious package but may turn out to be an innocent lunch bag left by a hurrying and absent-minded passenger, realising their flight is about to close, instead of a bomb left by a malicious terrorist. The lady bends down to give as accurate description as she can before airport police arrive to determine how serious the treat is and possibly order a costly evacuation. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Creatives and gaming designers put the finishing touches to Empire at Creative Assembly, the PC gaming brand Total War 's Horsham offices in West Sussex, England. .Up to 65 designers, artists and animators have worked on Empire: Total War (about the formation of the United States - the road to independence) for 3 1/2 years. Historical accuracy is such that research into weaponry, ships and events is as realistic as possible with the employment of historians with PHDs and degrees. (Note to editors: High-resolution screen grabs of Empire are in the possession of writer Nina Ernst).
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  • Battle Programmer Ingimar Gudmundsson (from Iceland, correct spelling with 'd') put the final touches to Empire, at the latest at Creative Assembly, the PC gaming brand Total War 's Horsham offices in West Sussex, England. .Up to 65 designers, artists and animators have worked on Empire: Total War (about the formation of the United States - the road to independence) for 3 1/2 years. Historical accuracy is such that research into weaponry, ships and events is as realistic as possible with the employment of historians with PHDs and degrees. (Note to editors: High-resolution screen grabs of Empire are in the possession of writer Nina Ernst).
    creative_assembly05-19-02_2009.jpg
  • An old 'Dumb Terminal' or desktop video display terminal (VDT) awaits bids during a NASA space junk auction on Merrit Island, Florida - part of a sale of space paraphernalia belonging to NASA enginer Charlie Bell, on 10th March 2003, on Merrit Island, Florida, USA. This was common design theme from the 1970s: a rounded plastic shell that housed a monochrome CRT screen and integrated keyboard. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • A BBC cameraman operates his equipment during a rehearsal for an outside broadcast for the One Show at Broadcasting House, on 4th October 2018, in London, England.
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  • An NHS surgeon performs an operation in a London hospital using endoscopy. Endoscopy (pronounced means looking inside and typically refers to looking inside the body for medical reasons using an endoscope, an instrument used to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body. Unlike most other medical imaging devices, endoscopes are inserted directly into the organ. Endoscopy can also refer to using a borescope in technical situations where direct line-of-sight observation is not feasible.
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  • From a high vantage point looking across the atrium of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, we see the zig-zag-shape stripes of escalators, beyond which we see the desks of insurance underwriters at the Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located in Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. looking across
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  • Security employed by contractor OCS searches a passenger at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Teams of 5-8 perform a rotational order of tasks, changing every 20 minutes: A loader (asking travellers to take off clothing, shoes etc); archway detectors; X-ray operator; liquid tester and bag searcher. The X-ray operator can earn a £50 bonus for a suspect item randomly inserted by undercover officials and known as an Airlock Find. Also, a Tip is a random image flashed on the screen that shows a suspect item they have to spot. A typical day of searched passengers is 25,000 passengers in T5. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
    heathrow_airport1467-18-08-2009.jpg
  • TV screen displaying corporate logo greeting message at main entrance of auditing company Ernst & Young's London headquarters
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  • TV screen displaying corporate greeting smiley face at main entrance of an auditing company's London headquarters
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  • TV screen displaying corporate greeting message at main entrance of auditing company Ernst & Young's London headquarters
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  • A traffic CCTV camera mounted in front of the clockface containing the Big Ben bell in the Elizabeth Tower of the British parliament, on 17th January 2017, in London England. The Elizabeth Tower (previously called the Clock Tower) named in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II in her Diamond Jubilee year – was raised as a part of Charles Barry's design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was largely destroyed by fire on the night of 16 October 1834. The new Parliament was built in a Neo-gothic style. Although Barry was the chief architect of the Palace, he turned to Augustus Pugin for the design of the clock tower. It celebrated its 150th anniversary on 31 May 2009. The tower was completed in 1858 and has become one of the most prominent symbols of both London and England.
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  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
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  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
    sewermen01-19-06-1994.jpg
  • Thames Water Utilities sewer cleaning team inspects the Fleet River's Victorian-built storm sewer of Blackfriars, beneath the streets of the City of London. Discarded fats from restaurants congeal in sewer networks leading to blocked pipework. Sewer men are shovel the deposits and bring them in vats to the surface. In the early 19th century the River Thames was practically an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including numerous cholera epidemics with the The Great Stink of 1858 a turning point. Intercepting sewers constructed between 1859 and 1865 were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main sewers that in turn conveyed the contents of some 13,000 miles (21,000 km) of smaller local sewers using 318m bricks, 880,000 cubic yards of concrete and mortar and excavation of over 3.5m tonnes of earth.
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  • Islamist Anjem Choudary is deputy and main spokesman of the radical UK group al Muhajiroun and banned breakaway group Islam4UK..
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  • Islamist Anjem Choudary is deputy and main spokesman of the radical UK group al Muhajiroun and banned breakaway group Islam4UK..
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  • Islamist Anjem Choudary is deputy and main spokesman of the radical UK group al Muhajiroun and banned breakaway group Islam4UK..
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  • Islamist Anjem Choudary is deputy and main spokesman of the radical UK group al Muhajiroun and banned breakaway group Islam4UK..
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  • Islamist Anjem Choudary is deputy and main UK spokesman of the radical group al-Muhajiroun stands in the Leytonstone, London..
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  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • Quality control worker sorts through sub-standard Moments biscuits at the Delacre biscuit production factory in Lambermont
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  • A traffic CCTV camera mounted in front of the clockface containing the Big Ben bell in the Elizabeth Tower of the British parliament, on 17th January 2017, in London England. The Elizabeth Tower (previously called the Clock Tower) named in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II in her Diamond Jubilee year – was raised as a part of Charles Barry's design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was largely destroyed by fire on the night of 16 October 1834. The new Parliament was built in a Neo-gothic style. Although Barry was the chief architect of the Palace, he turned to Augustus Pugin for the design of the clock tower. It celebrated its 150th anniversary on 31 May 2009. The tower was completed in 1858 and has become one of the most prominent symbols of both London and England.
    westminster-17-17-01-2017.jpg
  • Making their way across a field, alongside a hedge, and away from a collection homes a mother and her two children walk from the direction of massive chimneys and cooling towers. The instillation in the distance is the Sellafield. Formerly known as Windscale, Sellafield (operated by Sellafield Ltd) is a nuclear processing and former electricity generating site, close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England. The site has been the subject of much controversy because of discharges of radioactive material into the sea, mainly accidental but some alleged to have been deliberate. 1983 was the year of the 'Beach Discharge Incident' in which high radioactive discharges containing ruthenium and rhodium 106, both beta-emitting isotopes, resulted in the closure of a beach. BNFL received a fine of £10,000 for this discharge.
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  • Wearing a long beard of a strict Musilm, Anjem Choudary is a deputy and main UK spokesman of the Islamist group al-Muhajiroun whose leader, Omar Bakri Mohammad is a radical who caused controversy after the London attacks of July 2007, declaring that the only people he blames for the bombings are the government and British public. Choudary, a lawyer by profession, stands outside in the street in Leyton, north-east London England. There are few people in the background but Choudary commands much respect among activists in the UK. He organised and was fined in court for the Danish Embassy rally in February 2006 at which participants called for the massacre of those who insult Islam though Choudary refutes knowledge of who wrote such threats.
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  • A European Space Agency technician at Ariane launch control oversees the flow of procedures hours before a rocket launch
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  • An employee of fish importers New England Seafoods, monitors the labelling of a supermarket order of fresh Maldives tuna
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  • A shop assistant carries three boxes of Toshiba T1000 Portable Personal Computer laptops in an electronics and tech shop on the Tottenham Court Road, on 3rd March 1990, in London, England. The T1000 was a portable computer manufactured by the Toshiba Corporation from 1987. It had a similar specification to the IBM PC Convertible, with a 4.77 MHz 80C88 processor, 512 kB of RAM, and a monochrome CGA-compatible LCD. Unlike the Convertible, it includes a standard serial port and parallel port, connectors for an external monitor, and a real-time clock.
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  • An image of French swimming champion Yannick Agnel  stands on an ad for energy corporation EDF, one of the Olympic sponsor partners in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. Young women stand to admire him and have their photos next to his athletic figure outside the EDF corporate pavillion. EDF Energy has installed monitoring technology at sports venues across the Olympic park to show real-time energy consumption at the 2012 games. Agnel is a French swimmer and national record holder in the 200 and 400 m freestyle. Yannick Agnel (born June 9, 1992 in Nîmes) is a French swimmer and national record holder in the 200 and 400 m freestyle (long course). Agnel is also a nine-time medalist at the European Junior Swimming Championships. He has won two Olympic gold medals, both at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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