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MCI was recently asked by Bannatyne Filtration, a company that we have a close working relationship with, to investigate some failing extraction units at a local hospital. After an initial investigation, it was found that some of the motors had failed due to age and the weather. We supplied and…
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It will be no surprise to any of you that we at MCI love dogs. Large or small, hairless or fluffy, we love them all. It only seemed right that we celebrate International Dog Day today. Our four legged friends are always welcome in our office and we firmly believe…
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Today, MCI wants to celebrate a true renaissance woman, Hedy Lamarr. Now only was she said to be ‘the most beautiful woman in film’, but also was a scientific genius whose invention gave us the foundations for modern tech. Hedy Lamarr started life as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler. She starred…
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MCI wants to celebrate the life of Sir William Fairbairn today. This Scottish farmer’s son became the third president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the 1st Baronet of Ardwick through his noted work as a civil and structural engineer as well as shipbuilder. Fairbairn was an inventor and…
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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the life of Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, an electrical engineer who invented of the CT scanner and won the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1979. Even as a child he loved to experiment, leaping off haystacks attached to a home-made glider and, in…
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MCI always wants to shoot for the stars, so we are really excited this weekend as we will be looking for something very special in the night sky. The Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak this weekend. This is an annual event and the highlight of many an amateur astronomer’s…
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MCI wants to celebrate Curiosity today. NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover. On this day in 2012 this car sized robot landed on Mars inside the Gale Crater. This remarkable rover sent us the first pictures from the surface of Mars, live. When the first footage appeared on the NASA website, the…
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MCI wants to celebrate something that we all take for granted, the traffic light. On the 3 August 1926, at the junction of St James and Piccadilly in London, the first successful set of traffic lights were installed and operated manually by policemen. They had the now familiar red, amber…
