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  • MCI Electronics logo showing a doughnut with blue icing and white sprinkles.

    Doughnuts!

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    Who doesn’t love a doughnut? We at MCI love them. Whether it’s glazed, filled or sprinkled, pretty much everyone has had one or might even be having one after reading this! Well, the 22nd of June is the anniversary of the holed doughnut’s invention. Doughnuts themselves have an extremely long…

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  • MCI Electronics logo animation showing an old television in celebration of the life of John Logie Baird.

    John Logie Baird

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    Today MCI celebrates the live of one of its favourite inventors, John Logie Baird. Not only was he an inventor extraordinaire, but also an electrical engineer and innovator. The best bit was that he was also Scottish, just like MCI. He was born in Helensburgh in Dunbartonshire and, after he…

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  • MCI Electronics logo animation showing a spider swinging over to the logo in order to commemorate Robert the Bruce.

    Robert the Bruce

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    Today, MCI is proud to commemorate the death of one of Scotland’s kings and national hero, Robert the Bruce. Robert the Bruce, or Robert I was King of the Scots from 1306 until his death this day in history in 1329. He is most famous for leading Scotland in the…

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  • MCI Electronics logo animation showing an aurora in the night sky.

    Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén

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    MCI visits Sweden today to celebrate the life of Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén, who was born today, 30 May in 1908. He is close to our hearts because he was an electrical engineer, a plasma physicist and winner of the Nobel prize in 1970 for physics. His Nobel prize was…

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  • MCI Electronics logo image celebrating the achievements of William Gilbert.

    William Gilbert

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    Today MCI goes back in time…. way, waaay back in time to the Elizabethan period. In fact, the person we want to celebrate today is William Gilbert. He was Elizabeth I’s doctor. This extremely clever man was at the dawn of science as we know it and was the first…

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  • MCI Electronics logo animation celebrating the accomplishments of Joseph Henry.

    Joseph Henry

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    This week MCI wants to look at the life of Joseph Henry, an electrical inventor extraordinaire. He discovered electromagnetic induction whilst building electromagnets. He also discovered mutual inductance independent of Faraday. However, Faraday was the first to make the discovery and publish it. Following the theme of electromagnets, Joseph Henry…

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  • MCI Electronics logo animation showing a chess piece to remember the famous game between Deep Blue vs Kasparov.

    Deep Blue

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    This week, MCI remembers an event that would herald the future, the famous chess game between the Deep Blue IBM computer and Garry Kasparov. Kasparov had claimed that he couldn’t be beaten by any computer and the tournament was set up. The first game in February 1996 was won by…

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  • Animation showing a zip opening to reveal the MCI Electronics logo .

    National Zipper Day

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    MCI wants to look into the world of zippers, because today is National Zipper Day in the USA. Also, the zip (as we know it in the UK) was invented by an electrical engineer. It can’t get better than that! The zipper is one of the most underrated inventions in…

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  • History of Copyright

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    This week MCI visits the world of copyright. The 23rd April is World Book and Copyright Day. Copyright law in the UK has a very long history starting in 1710 with the Statute of Anne. It marked a pivotal moment, with the Statute pioneering governmental oversight and legal protection for…

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  • Kelpies sculpture in Falkirk near MCI workshop.

    The Kelpies

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    MCI wants to celebrate a important part of our local history. As some of you will know, our office is in Falkirk. Falkirk is famous for its giant sculptures of two horses’ heads called the Kelpies. The sculptures stand in a beautiful park called the Helix. The sculptures were unveiled…

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