Morita was born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1921 the son of sake brewers. In 1946, he helped start Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo KK (the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation) with Ibuka. They had $375 and space in an abandoned department store, shelled by bombs in the war. The company quickly built Japan's first tape recorder, but it was big and bulky -- not a product destined to propel the company into the limelight. Then, in the 1950s, Ibuka and Morita got a license from Bell Labs to build transistors.
The Japanese were still hard hit by the war, and couldn't really afford expensive electronics, so Ibuka set his sights on the American market with a brand new idea -- a small, transistorized radio that could fit in your pocket. As it was, a US company built such a radio first, but more as a gimmick than an actual product. When Sony, as Morita's company was soon renamed, came out with their radio, it quickly took over the market
While the Regency sold out everywhere, it didn't stay on the market. Texas Instruments caused the sensation it wanted and then moved on to other things.
But over in Japan, a tiny company had other ideas. A tape recorder manufacturer called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo had also decided to make small radios. In fact, they were going to devote their whole company to commercial products like that.
Tsushin Kogyo was close to manufacturing its first radios when it heard that an American company had beaten them to the punch. But they kept up the hard work, eventually producing a radio they named the TR-52. When Regency quit producing the TR1, in the spring of 1955, the Japanese company was poised to enter the US market.
While most American companies researched the transistor for its military applications, Ibuka envisioned using it for communications. While Regency and Texas Instruments in the US may have built a transistor radio first, it was the Tokyo Company that really invested the radio as a viable commercial product. Ibuka's company -- now named Sony, a combination of the Latin word for sound "sonus" and the chic Japanese boys of the time nicknamed "sonny" -- quickly took over the market.
The only problem was that the company name was unprouncable for Americans. They needed a new name. Ibuka and his partner Akio Morita thought and thought. First, they found a Latin word sonus meaning, "sound.
The man that envisioned a device like this was David Sarnoff. David Sarnoff was known as the father of entertainment broadcasting. He was the president of the Radio Corporation of America. He wrote to his superior, Edward J. Nally at the American division of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, “‘I have in mind a plan of development which would make radio a household utility in the same sense as the piano or phonograph. The receiver can be designed in the form of a simple music box and arranged for several wavelengths’” (Hilliard & Keith, 2001, p. 17). Back then in the early 1900s, Sarnoff claimed, and accurately predicted radio’s role as an entertainment device.
Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett were attending Stanford University near Palo Alto, California in the early to late 1930s and both majored in electrical engineering. After they both graduated, they decided to put their minds together and manufacture electronics. Their first product that was developed was the “resistance-capacitance audio oscillator” in 1938, which was used to check sound equipment for Walt Disney Studios. Once their first product hit the market, they decided to start the company Hewlett-Packard or HP in Dave Packard's garage with an introductory capital investment of $538 United States dollars. But before the company was called “Hewlett-Packard”, both Dave and Bill tossed coinage into the air to decide who got their name first in the organization. Dave Packard won, but decided for the name to be the “Hewlett-Packard Company” anyways. Hewlett-Packard opened their company to the world on November ...
Levi immediately introduces the Nazi’s process of useless violence within the first chapter of Survival in Auschwitz. Placed in a detention camp in Italy, a group of Germans arrive to inspect the camp. They begin to make a public scene condemning the quality of the camp, and even going so far as to say an infirmary will be opened soon. Of course, this is a playful act done by the Germans to instill false hope amongst the Jews, who would be sent away the next day. (SA, 14) In The Drowned and the Saved, Levi mentions how they are told to “bring along gold and jewels, and above all woolen clothing and furs,” which again was useless because their possessions would never be returned to them once they arrived at their destination. (DS 110) Instead, this was just an easy ploy to bring riches into the Reich. As they p...
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