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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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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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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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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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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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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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MCI was called out to another new customer. The customer is a local stainless steel fabrication company. Their press brake machine was not working at full capacity. For those of you who are not familiar, a press brake is a machine that bends flat pieces of metal into shapes or…
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Last Friday, MCI were celebrating National Flash Drive Day. For those of us old enough to to remember 20cm floppy discs, temperamental, bendable square storage devices. These giant floppy discs might just save your document long enough to get it to another computer, so the invention of the flash drive…
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Today MCI is celebrating Easter! Not only is this the time in Scotland when flowers are beginning to bloom and the weather gets warmer (apparently). We are going to be giving one another chocolate Easter eggs, stuffed with sweet treats. Some families will be going on Easter egg hunts, trying…
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This week, MCI wants to celebrate the granting of a very important patent – the patent for RAM (coincident current magnetic core memory). As you all know, no one would be able to use a computer or even read this post without this invention. The inventor was Jay Forrester. His…
