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MCI wish to congratulate, the scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Ekimov for winning the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and development of quantum dots on the 4th October. For those of you who are not familiar with quantum dots, they are semiconductor nanocrystals. The dots are only a…
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Today MCI has a history mystery for you. The 29th September 1913 was the date that Rudolf Diesel disappeared. As you can probably guess from the name, Rudolph Diesel was the inventor of the diesel internal combustion engine. He was a French – German engineer who wanted to create the…
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Today MCI takes a closer look at the working week as we celebrate the invention of the 5 day working week courtesy of Henry Ford this day in 1926. If you hate Mondays, think back to the turn of the 20th century when there wasn’t a weekend off. Henry Ford…
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
