Toshiba 1875 started its business, which originated from the telecom machinery factory founded by Tanaka Jiuzhong in Xinqiao.
At that time, Tanaka No.9 Middle School made a signboard for the factory to "undertake all mechanical design". This slogan embodies the brand-new enterprise spirit of creating "useful wealth" for the society, and has also become the enterprise genetic gene passed down by Toshiba 100 for more than years.
Tadashi Tanaka invented an inkstone that could not be opened at the age of eight. Later, his Bow Down Boy was recognized as the pinnacle of Edo puppet, and his Ten Thousand Years Clock was also considered as the world's highest masterpiece among mechanical clocks at that time. In addition, he also developed the first ice machine, the first torsion meter, the first bicycle and the first rice mill in Japan, which was called "the king of oriental inventions" by people at that time.
Tanaka believes that technologies and inventions that can't be used will never be recognized, so he never engages in so-called inventions that are self-righteous behind closed doors, but has always been committed to studying useful technologies. It is this belief that "inventing what people need can enrich people's lives and bring convenience and happiness to people", which makes Tanaka's invention reach the realm of "unimpeded".
-Founder Fujioka Shinsuke and Tokyo Electric Power.
TEPCO's predecessor was "Incandescent Society", and its founder was another Toshiba founder known as "Japanese Edison"-Fujioka Shijie.
1884, Fujioka Spock went to the United States as a national special envoy. There, he visited Edison and said that he would devote himself to the establishment of the electrical industry. Faced with this ambitious young man, Edison replied: "A country, no matter how rich its electricity is, will surely perish if its electrical appliances are always imported. We should start with the manufacture of electrical appliances and build a self-sufficient country. "
Fujioka Youhong accepted Edison's suggestion. After returning home, he actively promoted the localization and use of light bulbs to the economic community and even the whole country. Two years later, at his proposal, "Tokyo Electric" began to operate. The electrical age in Japan has finally arrived. 1890 In April, Fujioka City established the Incandescent Lamp Association and began to manufacture real light bulbs. At first, only a few were produced every day. After repeated research day and night, not only the quality is improved, but also the production scale is expanded to 280 ~ 290 pieces per day after 6 years.
1899, Fujioka city renamed "Tokyo incandescent bulb manufacturing co., ltd." (formerly "incandescent company") as "Tokyo electric co., ltd." and set its career goal as the overall development of the electrical industry. 1905 began to seek cooperation with Edison's company, General Electric Company of the United States. 19 1 1 year, the tungsten filament bulb "Mazda bulb" went on sale. Since then, with the popularity of cheap and durable household light bulbs, with the emergence of double coils and internal frosting, modern incandescent light bulbs have also been manufactured. TEPCO has been transformed into a company that can compete with foreign enterprises.
1939, the works of Tokyo Electric and Tadashi's Zhipu merged, forming the embryonic form of Toshiba. In the history of Toshiba since then, Toshiba has continuously developed and created many well-known products, including the world's fastest medical whole-body CT scanner, the world's first notebook computer, the world's first 16MB flash memory, the world's first Bluetooth technology application machine, and the world's first HDD &；; DVD video recorder, the world's smallest 0.85 hard disk, the world's smallest fuel cell, the world's fastest elevator. ...