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‘Twas the night before Christmas at MCI’ s place,The whole office was buzzing with engineers at haste,The phone started ringing with a loud BRING-A-BRING,It was Santa’s own workshop – a new job had come in! All these new toys now are so very advanced,My poor little elves, they don’t stand…
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This Friday MCI is singing: ” On the sixth day of Christmas, MCI sent to me,Six capacitors,Five solder reels,Four LEDs,Three-phase lines,Two engineers,and a circuit on a PCB” If you have problems with your machinery, don’t forget that we offer a speedy and reasonably priced distribution service as well as our…
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MCI is today counting down to Christmas with the Twelve Days of Christmas. The true origins of the song and meanings are obscured by time. However, the most well known version was published in a children’s book dating back to 1780. In the North of England, the song was originally…
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The 30th of November is St Andrews day, the patron saint of Scotland. MCI, of course, is always up for celebrating all things Scottish as our HQ is in Falkirk. Whether it’s hearing bagpipes that brings an emotional tear to our eye (in a good way), or celebrating Hogmanay with…
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Happy Halloween everyone! As this is the last post before the big night, MCI looks at its last monster for this year… or is that hero? Frankenstein’s creation. We have already looked at the life of Mary Shelley, who wrote the book in a previous post. Today, we look at…
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As Halloween creeps ever closer, MCI is looking at the monsters we loved to hate as kids. Whether you were a “hide-behind-the-sofa” or a “peep-from-the-cushion”, horror film monsters terrified and delighted us all. So today we take a look at Vampires. The man that many film vampires modelled themselves on…
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“… And now for something completely different…”. This week, MCI wants to celebrate the Monty Python team as they were first broadcast on the BBC on the 5th October 1969. From swallows carrying coconuts, being slapped with fish and the Spanish Inquisition, their unique brand of absurdist humour changed the…
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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the life of a man who brought much joy to children and adults over the years. We want to pay homage to the legendary Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets. Jim Henson was always destined to be a puppeteer, creating his first puppets at high…
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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the life and inventions of the Scottish inventor James Dewar. James Dewar was a scientist who worked with liquefaction of gases and was the inventor of the thermos flask. Dewar was born in in 1842 Kincardine, not far from MCI’s workshops in Falkirk. He went…
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MCI has been a dog friendly office for nearly a decade, MCI wants to celebrate a rather famous dog who solved mysteries with his friends, Shaggy, Velma, Fred and Daphne. Today was the day that Scooby-Doo was first premiered by Hanna Barbera in 1969. How many of us can remember…
