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This week, MCI Electronics is celebrating Alan Turing, the father of the computer. He cracked the Enigma code with his Turing machine which was the precursor to computers as we know them. Sadly, Alan Turing died at the early age of 41 and his achievements went largely unknown for decades…
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MCI has a service repairing and refurbishing broken commercial oven control boards. These ovens are commonly used in high street bakeries. Services in Addition to Repairing Oven Control Boards MCI has over a decade of experience in dealing with bakery machinery. From industrial ovens to blast freezers, we have fixed…
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This Scottish art legend sharing the same name as our CEO James McIntosh (although with a different spelling). Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born this week and was hugely influential to the art nouveau and successionism movements as an architect, designer and artist. MCI have experience of repairing printers’, bookmakers’ and…
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We received a boiler control from a school. The boiler was obsolete and the school didn’t want to buy a whole new machine. We replaced the transformer and tested it, getting the boiler back up and working in no time. There isn’t much we can’t fix at MCI. Give us…
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Repair MCI was asked to repair a control panel digitizer that had suffered quite an impact. The digitizer was replaced and the unit checked to make sure it was fully operational. It wasn’t long before the panel was back in service. MCI not only repairs control panels, but also can…
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This week, MCI is celebrating the patent of Andrew Moyer. This week in 1948, he obtained the patent for a method of large-scale production of penicillin. It is hard to think of life without this medication and millions of lives are saved every year with antibiotics. MCI has a strong…
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This week MCI is celebrating the man who gave us the satellite. This week in 1948, Robert Baumann, who was both an inventor and attorney, obtained a patent for a satellite structure that would revolutionise our lives. After all, where would we be without the wonders of sat nav! Don’t…
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MCI received a circuit board which was damaged because a joiner had put a nail through the power cable of an air conditioning unit. As you can see from the scorch marks, the board was in bad shape by the time it reached us. MCI removed the damaged component, cleaned…
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For the superstitious, Friday the 13th is thought to be unlucky. As to the real reason why this day is unlucky is shrouded in mystery, from the number of disciples at the Last Supper in the Christian religion to a Norse myth about a dinner party gone wrong, there are…
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MCI this week wants to celebrate Andrew Meikle. This Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor invented the threshing machine and assisted in inventing the Rotherham plough. He is recognised as kick starting the agricultural revolution and was one of the first 7 inductees to the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. MCI…
