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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the life and inventions of Marlan Bourns, who passed on March 18th 2014. He was the inventor of the Trimpot trimming potentiometer in 1952. A potentiometer is fitted directly onto the circuit board and allows you to adjust the resistance in a circuit. The current…
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Every workplace has a machine that has been there from the beginning, your workhorse and old faithful that you always rely on. It may have been there as long as you can remember, or (in the case of some of our customers) for generations. When it breaks down, production may…
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Today, MCI is celebrating National Periodic Table Day with the rest of the UK. We probably all remember the periodic table from our school days, from things that burnt with a squeaky pop to smelly chemical bridges. The concept of elements is very old indeed. The original concept of elements…
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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the achievements of Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden Zum Gutenberg, who invented the movable-type printing press on February 3rd 1468. Gutenberg, as his name suggests, was born in what is now known as Germany. He was a man of many talents, a goldsmith, gemstone cutter, member…
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Happy Lunar New Year everyone! This year is the year of the Snake. So everyone born in 1953,1965, 1977, 1989, 2001 and 2013 (following the lunar calendar) are all born under the year of the snake. Those born under the year of the Snake are said to be ambitious, wise,…
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Today MCI is celebrating the life and times of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. It is also Burns Night tonight, so we’ll be enjoying haggis and tatties this weekend. One of Buns’ most famous poems is To a Mouse, written in phonetic Scots. The poem is inspired by a mouse…
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Today, MCI wants to celebrate the inventor and scientist James Hillier. Canadian born Hillier created a prototype of the electron microscope as invented by Ernst Ruska as a graduate student. It was only a matter of time before he took things further and he later worked with Albert Prebus in…
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This week, MCI wishes to celebrate the life of the late, great Stephen Hawking. This genius of a man was famous within his own lifetime for his academic writing, widely read and appreciated by the general public and academics alike. Author of such books as ‘A Brief History of Time’,…
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Today MCI is singing: “On the twelfth day of Christmas, MCI sent to me,Twelve control panels,Eleven power supplies,Ten machines maintained,Nine panel displays,Eight motors running,Seven switches switching,Six capacitors,Five solder reels,Four LEDs,Three-phase lines,Two engineers,and a circuit on a PCB!” Our offices and workshops are closed and will re-open at 9am on the…
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‘Twas the night before Christmas at MCI’ s place,The whole office was buzzing with engineers at haste,The phone started ringing with a loud BRING-A-BRING,It was Santa’s own workshop – a new job had come in! All these new toys now are so very advanced,My poor little elves, they don’t stand…
