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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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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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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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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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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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MCI wants to celebrate something that we all take for granted, the traffic light. On the 3 August 1926, at the junction of St James and Piccadilly in London, the first successful set of traffic lights were installed and operated manually by policemen. They had the now familiar red, amber…
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Exploring Otto Hahn and the Impact of Nuclear Fission MCI is looking at the work of Otto Hahn this week. He was one of the inventors in a team who discovered nuclear fission. He passed away today in 1968 and his team’s invention changed the world as we know it,…
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MCI wants to take you back to this day in history 1996. This was the day that the first Tamagotchi was released in Japan. For those of you too young to remember the ‘fever’ that this little toy produced, a Tamagotchi was (and indeed still is) a little egg-shaped toy…
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MCI is celebrating the launch of Apollo 11 on the 16th July 1969. This space mission, with pilot Buzz Aldrin and Commander Neil Armstrong captivated the world as they landed on the moon. Armstrong became the first man on the moon with the immortal words “one small step for man,…
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MCI is celebrating World Chocolate Day today. Whether you like your chocolate milk, dark or white, almost everyone has happy memories of eating chocolate. Latin America is the home of the cocoa and there is evidence of chocolate being drunk there 4,000 years ago by the Mayans, Aztecs and Olmec…
