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  • An Wang

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    This month, MCI is celebrating An Wang – the inventor of the magnetic pulse transfer controlling device which is related to computer memory. Without An Wang’s invention, we wouldn’t have the digital information technology that we have today. If you need a PLC recoded, give MCI a call on 01324…

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  • Large Hadron Collider

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    When MCI says the word CERN, most of you will think of a particle accelerator.  Yes, today MCI wants to celebrate the Large Hadron Collider (“LHC”), the massive (and we really mean massive) particle accelerator that was started up on the 10 September 2008.  Without this amazing piece of equipment,…

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  • Elias Howe

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    Today MCI wants to celebrate the life of Elias Howe, the man who should be more celebrated for changing the way clothing is made.  Frankly, without his inventions, you would most likely have your trousers round your ankles!  His story has everything, tragedy and taking on the bad corporate big…

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  • Mary Shelley

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    This week MCI wants to celebrate the birth of Mary Shelley, the author of the book ‘Frankenstein’.  Famously, the book was conceived during a holiday in Switzerland with friends.  The story goes that the weather was very poor and had prevented them from leaving the house most days.  The group…

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  • International Dog Day

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    It will be no surprise to any of you that we at MCI love dogs.  Large or small, hairless or fluffy, we love them all.  It only seemed right that we celebrate International Dog Day today. Our four legged friends are always welcome in our office and we firmly believe…

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  • Hedy Lamarr

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    Today, MCI wants to celebrate a true renaissance woman, Hedy Lamarr.  Now only was she said to be ‘the most beautiful woman in film’, but also was a scientific genius whose invention gave us the foundations for modern tech.  Hedy Lamarr started life as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler.  She starred…

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  • Sir William Fairbairn

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    MCI wants to celebrate the life of Sir William Fairbairn today.  This Scottish farmer’s son became the third president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the 1st Baronet of Ardwick through his noted work as a civil and structural engineer as well as shipbuilder. Fairbairn was an inventor and…

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  • Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield

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    Today, MCI wants to celebrate the life of Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, an electrical engineer who invented of the CT scanner and won the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1979. Even as a child he loved to experiment, leaping off haystacks attached to a home-made glider and, in…

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  • Perseid Meteor Shower

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    MCI always wants to shoot for the stars, so we are really excited this weekend as we will be looking for something very special in the night sky.  The Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak this weekend.  This is an annual event and the highlight of many an amateur astronomer’s…

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  • Mars Curiosity Rover

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    MCI wants to celebrate Curiosity today.  NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover.  On this day in 2012 this car sized robot landed on Mars inside the Gale Crater.  This remarkable rover sent us the first pictures from the surface of Mars, live.  When the first footage appeared on the NASA website, the…

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