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  • Dated technology of the desolate electricity substation at South Bromley is seen from the Pylon Industrial Estate. .
    electricity150-20-01-2008 .jpg
  • Technology of the electricity substation at South Bromley, seen with rubbish in the Pylon Industrial Estate. .
    electricity274-22-01-2008 .jpg
  • A data car with 'Here Technologies' and with roof-mounted cameras, drives past a multi-coloured bike locked to a post in a sidestreet in London's West End, on 29th April 2019, in London, England. From autonomous driving, to the Internet of Things, 'Here' are building the future of location technology. Starting in 1985, they began with digital mapping mapping and in-car navigation systems. Over the next three decades, as NAVTEQ and Nokia, we’ve built a legacy in mapping technology. They now employ 8,000 workers.
    here_car-01-29-04-2019.jpg
  • A display detail showing fuel cans for Zero Petroleum's synthetic aviation AVGAS fuel, a research and development partnership with the Royal Air Force (RAF), at the Farnborough Airshow, on 20th July 2022, at Farnborough, England. The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) and British firm Zero Petroleum have moved to the next phase in the development of synthetic fuel technology. Under the new phase, the RAF and Zero Petroleum will carry out research to provide data to validate the efficiency and scalability of the synthetic fuel technology.
    farnborough_airshow-63-20-07-2022.jpg
  • A coil of electrical wiring cables is above the heads of pedestriansnear Royal Exchange on Threadneedle Street - part of ongoing alterations to the highway during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 30th July 2020, in London, England. SRL are the UK’s only manufacturer to sell and hire traffic light equipment and their Urban64 product is the first, and only, permanent technology system to be designed uniquely for temporary installations in the U.K. The Urban64 design allows for simple and quick over-head installation, with the ability to replicate the technology provided by the preceding permanent system, and therefore maintaining traffic flow efficiency.
    fuji_test32-30-07-2020.jpg
  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The .brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic...
    RB-0141.jpg
  • A coil of electrical wiring cables is next to the walls of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street - part of ongoing alterations to the highway during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th August 2020, in London, England. SRL are the UK’s only manufacturer to sell and hire traffic light equipment and their Urban64 product is the first, and only, permanent technology system to be designed uniquely for temporary installations in the U.K. The Urban64 design allows for simple and quick over-head installation, with the ability to replicate the technology provided by the preceding permanent system, and therefore maintaining traffic flow efficiency.
    city_people09-06-08-2020.jpg
  • A coil of electrical wiring cables is next to the walls of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street - part of ongoing alterations to the highway during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 6th August 2020, in London, England. SRL are the UK’s only manufacturer to sell and hire traffic light equipment and their Urban64 product is the first, and only, permanent technology system to be designed uniquely for temporary installations in the U.K. The Urban64 design allows for simple and quick over-head installation, with the ability to replicate the technology provided by the preceding permanent system, and therefore maintaining traffic flow efficiency.
    city_people10-06-08-2020.jpg
  • A coil of electrical wiring cables is above the heads of pedestriansnear Royal Exchange on Threadneedle Street - part of ongoing alterations to the highway during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 30th July 2020, in London, England. SRL are the UK’s only manufacturer to sell and hire traffic light equipment and their Urban64 product is the first, and only, permanent technology system to be designed uniquely for temporary installations in the U.K. The Urban64 design allows for simple and quick over-head installation, with the ability to replicate the technology provided by the preceding permanent system, and therefore maintaining traffic flow efficiency.
    fuji_test31-30-07-2020.jpg
  • A coil of electrical wiring cables is above the heads of pedestriansnear Royal Exchange on Threadneedle Street - part of ongoing alterations to the highway during the Coronavirus pandemic in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 30th July 2020, in London, England.  SRL are the UK’s only manufacturer to sell and hire traffic light equipment and their Urban64 product is the first, and only, permanent technology system to be designed uniquely for temporary installations in the U.K. The Urban64 design allows for simple and quick over-head installation, with the ability to replicate the technology provided by the preceding permanent system, and therefore maintaining traffic flow efficiency.
    fuji_test30-30-07-2020.jpg
  • Old technology on RAF jet fuel bowser that serves the Hawks of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team at their home base of RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. Operated by Squadron ground crew whose duties include keeping the team's aircraft and vehicles up and running perform the vital job of using this ageing equipment. Using such technology, the team have since 1965 flown over 4,000 such shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows080_RBA.jpg
  • Construction workers wearing hard hats hook up a pile of concrete beams on to a waiting crane hook. One man bends down to help loop a chain beneath one of the girders and attached to the dangling hook while another secures the chain and another man is in radio contact with the crane driver out of sight. Importantly, behind their low-loader truck is a Smirnoff advertising billboard with a famous ad campaign for the Vodka distillery. It depicts three carved Polynesian statues of Easter Island but seen through a botttle of the alcoholic beverage, is a representation of a face wearing a head band and MP3 headphones. Seen juxtaposed with the construction men and their building technology this scene describes a visual pun between an ancient lost civilization and the modern age of technology. Smirnoff is a vodka distillery founded in Moscow, by Piotr Arsenieyevich Smirnov. The .brand is now distributed in 130 countries and includes flavored vodka and malt beverages. The Sminoff advertising campaign is said to be based on the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte whose paradoxical images stretched our ideas of what was reality and the fantastic...
    RB-0141.jpg
  • A young trader in currencies leans back in his chair on the currency trading floor of Barclays Bank in the City of London, England, UK. Easing back during the stress of a day when the money markets have been volatile, this young man has the responsibilities of millions of Pounds Sterling to trade and value. He has old technology at his disposal, in the decade when technology made a big impression on the workplace but before the arrival of the internet and e-mail. Communication was therefore slow and unreliable although banks like Barclays who traded money across the world were skilled in migrating information across time-zones.
    city_banker07-16-1998.jpg
  • NASA Space Junk Auction.Oscilloscopes bought for scrap.One of Charles Bell's items for auction, Oscilloscopes and other electronics were bought for scrap. Assorted oscilloscopes and electronic gadgetry that Charles Bell amassed over the years. Items like these were partly responsible for many innovative technology that NASA wanted developing for the space programme including fibre optics that Charles Bell invented. Rather than preserving it for technology museums where it truly belonged, it has been bought as scrap, never to be seen again and other electronics were bought for scrap.
    Nasa11 RBA.jpg
  • 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.”
    meteorology_90s1-16-09-1991.jpg
  • In the heat and dust of the arid Sonoran desert are the remains of a Boeing 747 cockpit at the storage facility at Mojave, California. The wiring of the now-extinct flight engineer's console is a jumble of old technology. Either by age or cooling economy airliners are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. Elsewhere, assorted aircraft wrecks sit abandoned in the scrub minus their bellies, legs or wings like dying birds. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificent engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903..
    aviation_corbis43-15-08-1998.jpg
  • 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
    meteorology_90s2-16-09-1991.jpg
  • 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.”
    meteorology_90s3-16-09-1991.jpg
  • A poster in the window of a West End retailer advises prospective jobseekers to aplly via the Gigl app, rather than send in a printed CV, on 23rd August 2022, in London, England. Rather than a recruitment agency, Gigl is a technology platform that helps the way jobseekers find and apply for work. Through video, gigl allows job candidates  express themselves in front of prospective employers.
    west_end-54-23-08-2022.jpg
  • A car equipped with camera and mapping technology for the SatNav brand TomTom drives beneath the pillars and column architecture of Sir Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral south transept, on 24th June 2021, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images) CREDIT RICHARD BAKER.
    St_pauls06-24-06-2021.jpg
  • At a time when the UK government is embroiled in a controversial decision to allow Chinese phone technology manufacturer, Huawei access to a future 5G environment, a man walks and looks at his phone beneath the signpost for Parliament Street SW1, Westminster, on 29th January 2020, in London, England.
    westminster_corner-04-29-01-2020.jpg
  • Young women students enjoy interacting with the latest 1990s technology ideas at a Cable & Wireless exhibition, on 29th March 1996, in Hong Kong, China.
    cable_and_wireless-29-03-1996.jpg
  • Young men students enjoy interacting with latest 1990s technology ideas at a Cable & Wireless exhibition, on 29th March 1996, in Hong Kong, China.
    cable_and_wireless-29-03-1996_1.jpg
  • The scale replica of the 2,000 year-old Arch of Triumph in London's Trafalgar Square. The arch has been made from Egyptian marble by the Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) using 3D technology, based on photographs of the original arch. It will travel to cities around the world after leaving London.
    palmyra_arch01-20-04-2016.jpg
  • Asian tourists struggle with smartphone technology while outside Selfridges on Oxford Street on a bright day in central London.
    chinese_men02-16-02-2016.jpg
  • Covered stealth technology engine on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show18-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show16-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show09-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show08-14-07-2014.jpg
  • A Chinese exile is interviewed by a radio journalist opposite his embassy a day after the Tiananmen Sq massacre. Using old technology consisting of a tape recorder and analogue microphone, the reporter records the words of an activist, his words being broadcast, potentially across the world. The political crackdown that initiated on June 3–4 1989 became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre as troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
    tiananmen_london02-05-06-1989.jpg
  • 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.
    trading_floor03-20-04-1993.jpg
  • 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.
    trading_floor04-20-04-1993.jpg
  • Two people of east Asian-descent look at Toshiba laptops displayed in a computer specialist in Tottenham Court Road - the centre for technology, gadgets and computing in central London. It is 1990 and the smaller, more portable laptop market is just taking off. The man takes notes on paper, writing prices, technical  specifications and offers for these Japanese-made items. Vying for sales with Toshiba in this particular window is Psion, Epson and Canon - all players in the early 1990s.
    toshiba_buyers-03-03-1990.jpg
  • A Chinese army portable mobile missile launcher demonstrated by a mannequin at the UK's bi-annual Farnborough air show, England. Wearing goggles and helmet and a generic uniform, the model points the launcher into the air to simulate it being fired at a moving target, an example of 80s warfare technology.
    chinese_missile-20-07-1989.jpg
  • SGTE fast charger technology for electric vehicles at a charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge. CHAdeMO (sometimes spelled CHdeMO) is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector. CHAdeMO is an abbreviation of "CHArge de MOve", equivalent to "charge for moving". The name is a pun for O cha demo ikaga desuka in Japanese,[translating to English as "How about some tea?", referring to the time it would take to charge a car. CHdeMO can charge a car in less than half an hour.
    electric_nissan14-21-03-2012.jpg
  • SGTE fast charger technology for electric vehicles at a charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge. CHAdeMO (sometimes spelled CHdeMO) is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector. CHAdeMO is an abbreviation of "CHArge de MOve", equivalent to "charge for moving". The name is a pun for O cha demo ikaga desuka in Japanese,[translating to English as "How about some tea?", referring to the time it would take to charge a car. CHdeMO can charge a car in less than half an hour.
    electric_nissan12-21-03-2012.jpg
  • Coils of undeveloped, generic 35mm film emulsion, an antiquated analogue technology replaced by the digital camera pixel
    film_emulsion01-09-04-2010.jpg
  • During a fair at the famous Alexandra Palace in north London England, where the first BBC broadcasts were made in the mid-30s, the British Inventors Society (BIS) meet in a stand during a British Invention Show, an expo to help international entrepreneurs to sell their new ideas and concepts. BIS was formed in December 2003. The team that came together includes leading inventors and innovators, academics and entrepreneurs who share a common belief - that invention is the vital spark that drives the world's technology and new orders of wealth creation. But there is no-one at home here, its stand remains unoccupied with vacated seats seen through the open doorway and beneath the plain sign. It is a comical and ironic scene, of unfulfilled ambition and failing innovation.
    inventors_fair02-19-10-2007.jpg
  • A visitor to the General Electric (GE) exhibition stand at Britain's Farnborough Air Show, points to a feature on a massive, GE90-115B turbofan jet engine. Powering Boeing 777 airliners with up to 115,000 Pounds of thrust, this is a state-of-the-art engine that entered service in April 2004 with Air France. Its giant blades are lit with blue stage lighting to make it look iconic and imposing, dominating this picture of technology and innovation. Such mechanical excellence attached to the world's aircraft are helping to make them quieter and more energy and fuel efficient at a time when oil prices are making air travel an expensive mode of transport.
    farnborough_air_show14-14-07-2008.jpg
  • A hot air balloon is partially inflated before flight at Longleat Estate, Warminster, England. Using firstly cold air from a gas-powered fan, before its propane burners are used for final inflation, one of the ground crew assists in the process by pulling at the fragile synthetic material so that the volume within the whole 'envelope' can fill without damage and it's spectrum arc of colours are becoming rainbow-like. The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. The first manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783. In today's sport balloons the envelope is generally made from nylon fabric and the mouth of the balloon (closest to the burner flame) is made from fire resistant material such as Nomex.
    balloonist08-18-2004.jpg
  • The US aerospace manufacturer Lockheed-Martin's exhibition stand spells the words of warfare technology at Farnborough air show
    arms_exhibition-08-09-1998.jpg
  • NASA technology.Boy admires an Apollo moon suit.A boy visitor looks at an Apollo moon suit at the Kennedy Space Center museum dedicated to NASA's achievements. It is over 30 years since man last set foot on the moon but, for many Americans, the romance of space travel is more powerful than ever.
    Nasa13 RBA.jpg
  • Flight Lieutenant Dave Slow of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is seated in a BAE Systems Hawk jet aircraft simulator at the fast-jet flying training centre, RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. Like all fast-jet pilots, Flight Lieutenant Slow is required to complete this emergency drill every six months. The pilot is seated in his ejector seat as if in a real jet using back-projected computer graphics representing a generic landscape below. Each aviator proves they can cope with a series of failures that operators select: Engine, hydraulic failure or bird strike.  Apart from the aircraft fuselage, the high-tech facility loads malfunctions on a pilot that he could experience in reality. The version of Hawk that the Red Arrows fly is actually a primitive piece of equipment, without computers or fly-by-wire technology.
    Red_Arrows043_RBA.jpg
  • A Rolls-Royce turbofan has been fixed to the exterior of the company?s sales stand at the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire, England. The British-owned company have been making aircraft engines since 1914 at the start of the First World War, in response to the nation's needs, Royce designed his first aero engine ? the Eagle. Modern airliners have the Trent engine's technology embedded in its power plants and Farnborough is a major showcase for its many designs. Here, their chalet has a mocked-up garden feature complete railings and the turbine blades attached to the wall above. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis25-23-07-2002.jpg
  • Foodstuffs progress through real-time ordering and delivery technology at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution depot
    sainsburys_depot138-09-05-2007.jpg
  • Foodstuffs progress through real-time ordering and delivery technology at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution depot
    sainsburys_depot086-09-05-2007.jpg
  • Electricity cables stretch into early morning mist above Swanscombe, Kent, London England. In the foreground we see a stack of discs called Insulators which stop the electricity carried in the conductor (the wires strung between each pylon) from jumping to the pylon and then down to earth. The cables disappear into the winter fog creating a Sci-Fi scene of 21st technology. Diagonally, the cables travel across the picture but they are part of a line of 542 pylons that have already crossed 110 miles of English countryside, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables from Dungeness coal-fired power station to West Ham sub station in London's East End - to power the West End's high supply demands.
    electricity409-11-02-2008 .jpg
  • A car equipped with camera and mapping technology for the SatNav brand TomTom drives beneath the pillars and column architecture of Sir Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral south transept, on 24th June 2021, in London, England. CREDIT RICHARD BAKER.
    St_pauls07-24-06-2021.jpg
  • Sixties NASA rocket technology from the Saturn V and Apollo-era is suspecded from the roof of the Kennedy Spce Center, on 10th March 2003, in Cape Kennedy, Florida, USA. An Apollo rocket stage for the Saturn V rocket and a Lunar Module in the Apollo/Saturn V Center which is only accessible to visitors by bus tours from the Visitors Complex. The Space cenbter features exhibits and displays, historic spacecraft and memorabilia. It also encompasses the separate Apollo/Saturn V Center and United States Astronaut Hall of Fame. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    kennedy_space-10-03-2003.jpg
  • The scale replica of the 2,000 year-old Arch of Triumph in London's Trafalgar Square. The arch has been made from Egyptian marble by the Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) using 3D technology, based on photographs of the original arch. It will travel to cities around the world after leaving London.
    palmyra_arch07-20-04-2016.jpg
  • The scale replica of the 2,000 year-old Arch of Triumph in London's Trafalgar Square. The arch has been made from Egyptian marble by the Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) using 3D technology, based on photographs of the original arch. It will travel to cities around the world after leaving London.
    palmyra_arch05-20-04-2016.jpg
  • Asian tourists struggle with smartphone technology while outside Selfridges on Oxford Street on a bright day in central London.
    chinese_men01-16-02-2016.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show15-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show13-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show10-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show06-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
    farnborough_air_show07-14-07-2014.jpg
  • Ageing 80s technology of the Thames Barrier on the River Thames near Woolwich in east London. As daylight fades to become a purple hue, we see the waters of the Thames flowing on the tide. Operational in 1982, the Thames Barrier is one of the largest movable flood barriers in the world, managed by the UK's Environment Agency. The barrier spans 520 metres across the River Thames near Woolwich, and it protects 125 square kilometres of central London from flooding caused by tidal surges.  The barrier has closed over 80 times since the year 2000 with ‘at least 800,000 homes and businesses have protected from tidal surges.
    thames_barrier-12-04-1989.jpg
  • A local man carries electric cabling uphill on the Annapurna Sanctuary trekking route in central Nepal. With few roads that can transport supplies and raw materials up to remote foothill communities, the only way is often to carry what one needs on the back or by yak. The paths are even but often very steep in places so stamina and endurance are needed to get even modest weights uphill. Nepalis up here often want newer technology and basic electricity to power lights and showers although solar power is another answer.
    himalayas_porter02-12-12-1997.jpg
  • An airline flight-engineer occupies his own seat in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 - before the era arrived when technology made his role as a third flight crew member redundant. With a bowl of fresh fruit beside his seat, the male member of the flight-deck crew watches instruments and readings in front of the unseen pilots at the front. Wearing the three stripes designating his rank and seniority within his unspecified airline, the specialist's skills are in engineering systems that maintain efficient flight. When introduced, the Boeing 747-400 model was equipped with a two-crew glass cockpit, which dispensed with the need for a flight engineer - many of whom lost their jobs or retrained as pilots themselves.
    flight_engineer01-07-08-2000.jpg
  • 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.
    trading_floor01-20-05-1992.jpg
  • Military jet fighter engines awaiting recycling for scrap value in arid desert at Davis Monthan facility, Tucson, Arizona.  A landscape of old technology, the relics of former wars and air supremacy now reduced to aluminium and sprayed IDs. Jet pipes and power plants, the energy to get multi-million aircraft into the air to attack or defend territory and culture. These retired aircraft engines whose air frames are too old for flight are being stored then recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total at this repository for old military fighter and bomber aircraft.
    jet_engines-15-08-1998.jpg
  • SGTE fast charger technology for electric vehicles at a charging point offering an EV 30 minute charge. CHAdeMO (sometimes spelled CHdeMO) is the trade name of a quick charging method for battery electric vehicles delivering up to 62.5 kW of high-voltage direct current via a special electrical connector. CHAdeMO is an abbreviation of "CHArge de MOve", equivalent to "charge for moving". The name is a pun for O cha demo ikaga desuka in Japanese,[translating to English as "How about some tea?", referring to the time it would take to charge a car. CHdeMO can charge a car in less than half an hour.
    electric_nissan13-21-03-2012.jpg
  • As an early sun rises, the twin stacks of Richborough cooling Towers make silhouettes against the golden morning light. Now decommissioned, these industrial giants of the landscape are sending clouds of steam vapour into the air, in the county of Kent. Nature can be seen competing with 20th Century technology as solar energy is seen against the war power being generated. From 1962-1971 Richborough burned coal from collieries. In 1971 the station was converted to burn oil. Too costly to run plant underwent trials on an experimental fuel called Orimulsion, a cheap heavy oil and water-based emulsion produced form natural bitumen from Venezuela. Initial results or trials suggested it would make a cheap clean fuel alternative to oil but high sulphur emissions from the plant caused nearby Acid Rain and after local protest, the site has since been derelict.
    cooling_towers01-19-05-1992.jpg
  • A detailed view of a Mark 1 Hawk jet belonging to 'Synchro Leader' of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. We see the flight controls and instrument panels looking grubby and worn with grey paint rubbed or flaking off. This version of the BAE Systems Hawk is low-tech without computers nor fly-by-wire technology it is one of the most user-friendly modern jets to fly and serves as a first step trainer for pilots to accumulate fast-jet flying hours and who are destined for the most sophisticated of fast military fighters in the future. Their aerobatic displays demands that their workhorse machine must have phenomenal turning circle ability and rate of climb. The team's aircraft are in some cases over 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent engineering overhauls needed..
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  • Joystick controller at BAE Systems Hawk jet aircraft simulator test a Red Arrows pilot at the fast-jet flying training centre, RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. All fast-jet pilots are required to complete an emergency drill every six months. The pilot is seated in his ejector seat as if in a real jet using back-projected computer graphics representing a generic landscape below. Each aviator proves they can cope with a series of failures that operators select: Engine, hydraulic failure or bird strike.  Apart from the aircraft fuselage, the high-tech facility loads malfunctions on a pilot that he could experience in reality. The version of Hawk that the Red Arrows fly is actually a primitive piece of equipment, without computers or fly-by-wire technology.
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  • A Nepali lady sits on corrugated iron alongside a giant satellite dish on the roof of her home' in a suburb of Kathmandu, Nepal. We see the sunny street below in the background and other rooftops of scattered aerials, roughly-made brick walls. She has hung her colourful (colorful) clothes washing out to dry on a line and on the structure's bowl-like shape that points towards space and signals from the outside world. It was designed to receive television signals from Nepal's main TV station is Nepal Television (NTV) whose programmes are mostly serials from Pakistan and Hindi films. Nepalis however, search the wider-world for their news digest and western culture, especially during governmental crackdown and censorship during the democracy protest disturbances of 2006. King Gyanendra imposed severe media restrictions after assuming direct control of the country the previous year. The scene is of new technology in the backdrop of a poor, third world country who freedoms of expression and experience of western democracy has been tested in recent years.
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  • A detailed view of a Mark 1 Hawk jet belonging to 'Synchro Leader' of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. We see the flight controls and instrument panels looking grubby and worn with grey paint rubbed or flaking off. This version of the BAE Systems Hawk is low-tech without computers nor fly-by-wire technology it is one of the most user-friendly modern jets to fly and serves as a first step trainer for pilots to accumulate fast-jet flying hours and who are destined for the most sophisticated of fast military fighters in the future. Their aerobatic displays demands that their workhorse machine must have phenominal turning circle ability and rate of climb. The team's aircraft are in some cases over 25 years old and their airframes require constant attention, with frequent engineering overhauls needed. .
    Red_Arrows769_RBA.jpg
  • Salmon progresses through real-time ordering and delivery technology at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution depot
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  • Foodstuffs progress through real-time ordering and delivery technology at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution depot
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  • Foodstuffs progress through real-time ordering and delivery technology at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution depot
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  • Foodstuffs progress through real-time ordering and delivery technology at Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft distribution depot
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  • Delegates are shown wing composite technology by man from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency at the Paris Air Show exhibition
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  • iXPLOR moving map technology gives the air traveller real-time geographical positions on an economy class airline seat.
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  • The flight-deck crew of a Sri Lankan Airlines A340-300 series Airbus - registration number 4R-ADE - perform a series of pre-flight checks before a scheduled departure, while on the apron at Malé international airport in the Republic of the Maldives. Featuring electronic instruments it is known as a 'glass cockpit' and using a printed checklist manual, they methodically work through dozens of complex systems that require accurate input before the aircraft is ready for take off. Flight navigation computers, fuel and engine settings and radio frequencies all need programming by the two pilots, the captain on the left and the First Officer on the right. These modern airliners have only two pilots in a modern flight-deck as technology superceeded the need for a third member, the flight-engineers of a previous era of aviation.
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  • Standing on weathered concrete at an old launchpad from a bygone age, space tourists stop to photograph the current Ariane 5 launchpad while on a tour of the European Space Agency at Kourou, French Guiana. They are mostly Japanese, representing their B-SAT communications satellite which is to be sent into orbit later that night alongside a US-made Hughes Corporation and Lockheed Martin technology. An American NASA space technician walks past the four Japanese as they hold cameras that record their souvenirs of a memorable day at this space facility deep in the South American rainforest. The orange bags carried by all are gas masks. Should the out of sight rocket booster explode or leak liguid propellant, dangerous fumes might overcome the visitors.
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  • The outline of electricity cables stretch across a gloomy winter sky in woodland near Wrington, North Somerset England. Diagonally, the cables travel across the picture but they are part of a line of L6 pylons that have already crossed many miles of South-West England's countryside, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables to power some of Bristol's high supply demands. In the foreground we see the bare boughs and branches of trees creating a Sci-Fi scene of ugly 21st technology versus the beauty of nature. Insatiable appetites for raw power and energy means electricity is now an expensive comodity after climbing oil prices doubled electricity utility bills for some domestic users.
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  • Electricity cables stretch into early morning mist above Swanscombe, Kent, London England. In the foreground we see a stack of discs called Insulators which stop the electricity carried in the conductor (the wires strung between each pylon) from jumping to the pylon and then down to earth. The cables disappear into the winter fog creating a Sci-Fi scene of 21st technology. Diagonally, the cables travel across the picture but they are part of a line of 542 pylons that have already crossed 110 miles of English countryside, carrying 40,000 Volts along this network of aluminium cables from Dungeness coal-fired power station to West Ham sub station in London's East End - to power the West End's high energy supply demands.
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  • A new hospital equipment concept is demonstrated by an entrepreneur's model at an inventors fair in Alexandra Palace, London
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  • A flock of grazing sheep eat grass in a field beneath an electricity pylon in a North Somerset field.
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  • Insulator discs and pylon at the electricity substation, South Bromley, seen from the Pylon Industrial Estate, London.
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  • National Grid electricity instalation on industrial wasteland at Barton Down, Canterbury, Kent
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  • We look through the windscreen of a Royal Air Force C-130-J Hercules to see a pilots-eye view of his fixed head-up-display (HUD), while in flight over Hampshire during the Farnborough Air Show. We see the aircraft flying data in green set against the magenta colour (color) of the clouds and sky beyond. The pilot will see the statistics that are important aspects of his aeroplane's altitude, compass heading, localiser, air speed, pitch, roll and yaw. Head-up displays are increasingly important to military and commercial aircraft (airplanes) when information can be displayed without obstructing the user's front view front. The second type of HUD is mounted within a protective helmet visor. The C-130 Hercules primarily performs the tactical portion of airlift operations. The aircraft is capable of operating from rough, dirt strips and is the prime transport for air dropping troops and equipment into hostile areas. The C-130-J is the newer generation digital version with fully integrated digital avionics; color multifunctional liquid crystal displays including the HUD; state-of-the-art navigation systems with dual inertial navigation system and global positioning system; fully integrated defensive systems; low-power color radar; digital moving map display; new turboprop engines with six-bladed, all-composite propellers; digital auto pilot; improved fuel, environmental and ice-protection systems; and an enhanced cargo-handling system..
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  • RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station high on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Before their demolition by Ministry of Defence contractors this early attack warning Cold War facility, consisted of three 40-metre-diameter 'golfballs' or geodesic domes (radomes) containing mechanically steered radar. They became a local tourist attraction and coach tours drove past the site listening to the interference on radios emitted by the radomes. They have since been replaced by the current tetrahedron ('pyramid') structure and is still a secret location. Its Motto is "Vigilamus" ("We are watching"). It is now a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS)...
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  • A young Chinese boy on a school trip places his hand on an exhibit belonging to the British communications company, Cable & Wireless at the Hong Kong Telecom Tower in Central Hong Kong. The smartly-dressed lad dressed in his school uniform is seen against a graduated blue background and is placing his hand on a sensor to activate an interactive demonstration. His face glows with the red light from the programme and his hands is being read by the orange light of the sensor. Since 1938 Cable & Wireless became responsible for the fixed wireless services of Hong Kong and connected their external telephone services for the national network. The services operate on one of the most highly advanced fibre optic networks in the world. Cable & Wireless provides  domestic and international telecommunications services in Hong Kong through the operating companies of its subsidiary, Hong Kong Telecom.
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  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
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  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of a Boeing airliner sat the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world's retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
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  • Two women, one using a camera and the other a phone at the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square.
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  • RAF Fylingdales is a British Royal Air Force station high on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Before their demolition by Ministry of Defence contractors this early attack warning Cold War facility, consisted of three 40-metre-diameter 'golfballs' or geodesic domes (radomes) containing mechanically steered radar. They became a local tourist attraction and coach tours drove past the site listening to the interference on radios emitted by the radomes. They have since been replaced by the current tetrahedron ('pyramid') structure and is still a secret location. Its Motto is "Vigilamus" ("We are watching"). It is now a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS)...
    RB_105-05-05-1994.jpg
  • Aged warning sign and spotlight at a side entrance of the European Space Agency's Spaceport at Malmanoury Creek French Guiana
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  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
    esa_guiana18515-08-2007.jpg
  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
    esa_guiana18215-08-2007.jpg
  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
    esa_guiana17915-08-2007.jpg
  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
    esa_guiana17215-08-2007.jpg
  • Rusting Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket booster parts lie on tropical wasteland at European Space Agency's Kourou space center.
    esa_guiana16815-08-2007.jpg
  • Detail of an exposed junction box and analogue electricity meter on an industrial estate in West Ham substation, Canning Town
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  • In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sit the remains of a Boeing 747 airliner at the storage facility at Mojave, California. Here, the fate of the world's retired civil airliners is decided by age or a cooling economy and are either cannibalised for still-working parts or recycled for scrap, their aluminium fuselages worth more than their sum total. After a lifetime of safe commercial flight, wings are clipped and cockpits sliced apart by huge guillotines, cutting through their once-magnificant engineering. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_graveyard02-16-03-2008-15-0...jpg
  • Members of the public watch 'Room To Breathe', a free mindfulness experience in partnership with Pixel Artworks & Panadol at 'Outernet London', a new entertainment venue, recently opened in near Tottenham Court Road in London's West End, the largest digital exhibition space in Europe with the "World's largest LED screen, on 22nd November 2022, in London, England. Panadol has partnered with Pixel Artworks and Outernet for ‘Room to Breathe’, an immersive experience in Outernet London’s centrepiece The Now Building which features 23,000 square feet of floor to ceiling, wrap around 8K screens. ‘Room to Breathe’ offers visitors the possibility to explore other methods to help them manage the feeling of stress, through music and breathing techniques
    outernet_screen-4-22-11-2022.jpg
  • Members of the public watch 'Room To Breathe', a free mindfulness experience in partnership with Pixel Artworks & Panadol at 'Outernet London', a new entertainment venue, recently opened in near Tottenham Court Road in London's West End, the largest digital exhibition space in Europe with the "World's largest LED screen, on 22nd November 2022, in London, England. Panadol has partnered with Pixel Artworks and Outernet for ‘Room to Breathe’, an immersive experience in Outernet London’s centrepiece The Now Building which features 23,000 square feet of floor to ceiling, wrap around 8K screens. ‘Room to Breathe’ offers visitors the possibility to explore other methods to help them manage the feeling of stress, through music and breathing techniques
    outernet_screen-3-22-11-2022.jpg
  • A telecoms engineer for an unknown company works at the kerbside in a Waterloo street during a rain shower in south London, on 23rd November 2022, in London, England.
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