Toshiba

Toshiba
	File:Toshiba logo.svg
	File:Hamamatsucho Building.JPG Main office in Japan
Founded	July 1875 (as Tanaka Seisakusho)
Founder	Tanaka Hisashige
Headquarters	Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Toshiba is a Japanese multinational company. Its diversified products include information technology and telecommunication equipment and systems, electronic components and materials, power systems, industrial and social infrastructure systems, household appliances, medical equipment and lighting.^[1]

Toshiba Corporation was started in 1939, by two companies, a telegraph manufacturer and a light bulb maker.

History

July 11, 1875, Tanaka Hisashige strarted an electric equipment factory which was the first in Japan to produce telegraphs.^[2]^[3]
1939 Toshiba was founded in 1939 as Tokyo Shibaura Electric K.K. through the merger of Shibaura Seisaku-sho (founded in 1875) and Tokyo Denki (founded in 1890).

Products and services

TV
Blu-ray Disc
PC
elevators and escalators
control systems (including air-traffic control systems, railway systems, security systems and traffic control systems)
medical equipment (including CT and MRI scanners, ultrasound equipment and X-ray equipment)
3D television
HDD
printers

Main brands of products

VEGETA (Refrigerator)
ZABOON (Clothes dryer)
TORNEO (Cleaner)
Smarbo (Cleaner)
dynabook laptops, which were bought by Sharp in 2018^[4]
REGZA (smartphone)

Toshiba Media

Toshiba Vacuum tube Radio.jpg

AM-only Toshiba vacuum tube radio (1955)
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The Toshiba pavilion at Expo '85
TOSHIBA Logo 1950.svg

In 1950, Tokyo Shibaura Denki was renamed Toshiba. This logo, known as the "Umbrella Mark", was used from 1950 to 1969, and then as a primary logo between 1969 and 1984. It was also used later on for hard drives.
TOSHIBA Logo 1969.svg

Toshiba's secondary logo used from 1969 to 1984, used in tandem with the umbrella logo above
TOSHIBA JW-10.JPG

World-first Japanese word processor Toshiba JW-10 (1979)
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A Nuon, an obscure DVD/Console hybrid, manufactured by Toshiba in 2000.
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A Toshiba T1950CT notebook computer
Lazona Kawasaki Toshiba Building.jpg

Toshiba Science Museum in Kawasaki, Japan
Toshiba Himeji.jpg

Toshiba factory in Taishi, Japan

References

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File:Toshiba logo.svg
File:Hamamatsucho Building.JPG Main office in Japan
Founded	July 1875 (as Tanaka Seisakusho)
Founder	Tanaka Hisashige
Headquarters	Minato, Tokyo, Japan