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Fingerprint scanner

Fingerprint scanner. Person's finger being scanned by a fingerprint scanner. This scanner is being used to open a door. The ridges on people's fingers form a unique identifying pattern. This pattern can be stored in a computer and a scanner uses this information to identify people. Security technology based on identifying a person's unique biological data, such as fingerprint patterns, the patterns of the iris and retina, and sequences of DNA, is known as biometric technology

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Verderer at the gate of Royal Enclosure, Ascot

One of the Royal Foresters, or Verderers, of Windsor Park, performing his annual duty of keeping guard at the gate of the Royal Enclosure during Ascot Week, access to which was one of the most exclusive invitations during the Season. Formerly, the duties of a Verderer of the King's forest were, in the formidable words of Blackstone, to preserve the vert and venison, keep the assizes, view, receive, and enroll attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses, a task from which keeping the gate at Ascot would be a pleasant change indeed. Date: 1928

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Paris Exhibition of 1889 - English Section

Paris Exhibition of 1889 - English Section - Col Slide. arched display cabinets - square central access. flags. Part of Box 119 Boswell Collection. The UK display was under the control of a royal commission, of which the Prince of Wales was president. Date: 1889

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans

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