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  • Happy Halloween – 2024

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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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  • Bela Lugosi

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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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  • Monty Python

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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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  • Jim Henson

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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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  • James Dewar

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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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  • Scooby-Doo

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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…

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  • Richard Tolman

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    Today, MCI wants to celebrate the truly remarkable life of Richard Tolman. This man was a multidisciplinary scientist who excelled in theoretical cosmology and statistical mechanics. He was also a physical chemist and mathematical physicist. He was professor of physical chemistry and mathematical physics at Caltech. The part of his…

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  • Kinetograph

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    MCI wants to celebrate the first moving image camera today. Thomas Edison / William Dickson invented the Kinetograph camera, which was a camera that could take a series of photographs of something in motion. The photographs were then stored on a perforated film and allowed one viewer to see the…

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  • William Wallace

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    MCI wants to celebrate the life of a very famous Scot, William Wallace. He died this day in history 1305. Most people will know him as the hero from the film Braveheart. Contrary to the film though, he was a well educated man who went to a monastery school. He…

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  • The Calculator

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    MCI wants to celebrate the official invention of the calculator today. Although adding machines have existed since the days of the ancients, with primitive machinery like the abacus (which is still used effectively today), August 19th was anniversary of the death of Blaise Pascal, the ‘inventor’ of the first patented…

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