September 23, 1889 - Fusajiro Yamauchi established Nintendo Koppai in Kyoto, Japan; began manufacturing "Hanafuda ('flower cards')," Japanese playing cards in Kyoto; 1903 - established unlimited partnership, Yamauchi Nintendo & Co.; 1929 - Sekiryo Yamauchi (son-in-law) succeeded; 1947 - began  distribution company, Marufuku Co. Ltd ; 1951 - name changed from Marufuku Co. Ltd. to Nintendo Playing Card Co. Ltd.; 1963 - name changed to Nintendo Co. Ltd., started manufacturing games in addition to playing cards; 1975 - moved into video arcade game industry with EVR Race (designed by Genyo Takeda, company's first game designer); March 2, 1976 - Nintendo Co., Ltd. registered "Nintendo" trademark (copying machine [duplicator] utilizing the wet system with diazo solution and fluorescent lamp); June 1985 - introduced American version of Nintendo Entertainment System (NES or Nintendo), 8-bit video game console (designed by Masayuki Uemura, launched in Japan in 1983), at Consumer Electronics Show; October 18, 1985 - released in United States.

May 15, 1891 - Gerard Philips (Philips and Co) began operations at Eindhoven in Holland; first products - carbon-filament light bulbs; 1895 - Anton Frederik Philips joined company as  salesman (CEO from 1922-1939); 1912 - company named N.V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken; 1918 -  introduced medical X-ray tube; began product diversification; 1927 - began producing radios (one million sold by 1932); 1933 - produced 100-millionth radio valve; started production of medical X-ray equipment in United States; 1939 -  launched first Philips electric shaver; 45,000 employees  worldwide; June 27, 1944 - registered "Norelco" trademark first used October 13, 1943 (X-Ray apparatus for industrial inspection and testing and laboratory experimentation); 1950s - rotary heads invented by Philips Research; led to  development of Philishave electric shaver; 1965 - produced first integrated circuits; 1972 - established PolyGram music record label; 1991 - name was changed to Philips Electronics N.V.; 1974 -  acquired Magnavox; 1975 - acquired Signetic; 1980s - acquired GTE Sylvania's television business, Westinghouse lamps business; 1983 - launched Compact Disc jointly with Sony; 1984 - produced 100-millionth TV set; 1991 - name  changed to Philips Electronics N.V.; 1995 - produced 300-millionth Philishave electric shaver; 1997 - released DVD, fastest growing home electronics product in history; 2004 - launched new brand promise with massive advertising campaign: 'sense and simplicity'; September 2006 - 80.1% of Semiconductors business acquired by consortium of private equity partners; shifted from cyclical markets to focus on Healthcare, Lifestyle, Technology; January 1, 2008 - formed  three sectors: Healthcare, Lighting and Consumer Lifestyle.

Gerard Philips (http://www.hupse.eu/radio/images/ gerard_philips.jpg)

Anton Philips  (http://www.hupse.eu/radio/images/ antonphilips.jpg)

July 17, 1899 - NEC founded as Nippon Electric Company, Limited; first Japanese joint venture (Western Electric Company) with foreign capital.

November 13, 1900 - Valdemar Poulsen, of Copenhagen, Denmark, received a patent for a "Method of Recording and Reproducing Sounds or Signals" ("Methods and Apparatus for Effecting the Storing Up of Speech or Signals by Magnetically Influencing Magnetizable Bodies"); magnetic tape recording.

September 25, 1928 - Paul V. Galvin, Joseph E. Galvin incorporated Galvin Manufacturing Corporation to market a "battery eliminator," product that allowed battery-operated radios to run on household electric current; five employees, first year net sales of $63,000, net earnings of $6,015; September 30, 1930 - registered "Motorola" trademark first used May 7, 1930 (radio receiving sets); name created by Paul Galvin for company's new car radio, linked "motor" (motorcar, motion) with the suffix "ola" (sound) = sound in motion; 1947 - name changed to Motorola, Inc.; June 1955 - introduced a new logo, stylized "M" insignia.

May 16, 1930 - John Clarence Karcher, Eugene McDermott, former employees of Amerada Petroleum Corp., incorporated Geophysical Service Inc. (reflection seismograph system - searched beneath earth's surface for structures, domes hiding reservoirs of oil, gas); January of 1939 - name changed to Coronado Corporation (GSI became subsidiary); 1941 - acquired by Stanolind Oil & Gas Company (later Amoco) for $5 million; December 6, 1941 - Cecil Green, Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott, H. Bates Peacock (former GSI employees) acquired GSI; spring of 1946 - Laboratory and Manufacturing (L&M) division formed; 1948 - sales neared $5 million, electronics manufacturing accounted for less than $1 million in sales; October 1951 - name changed to Texas Instruments Incorporated; 1952 - acquired transistor license; October 1, 1953 - listed on NYSE (started trading at $5.25 per share, market capitalization of $21 million); 1955 - introduced first commercial product (recti/reiter recorder); September 12, 1958 - Jack S. Kilby (inventor of integrated circuit, Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000) performed successful laboratory demonstration of first simple microchip (received patent on invention on June 23, 1964); 1959 - merged with Metals & Controls (M&C) Corporation; 2004 - 100 shares bought in 1953 equaled 24,000 shares; market capitalization more than $42 billion.

1946 - Tadao Kashio set up business called Kashio Seisakujo, small subcontractor factory that made microscope parts and gears, in Mitaka, Tokyo; 1954 - with brother, Toshio, completed Japan's first electric calculator (lacked continuing multiplication function); June 1957 - Kashio brothers established CASIO Computer Co., Ltd. as development,  production company for relay calculators; signed contract with Uchida Yoko Co., Ltd. as exclusive dealer; June 1965 - Exclusive dealer contract with Uchida Yoko Co., Ltd., discontinued; took over 50 sales outlets; September 1966 - electronic desktop calculators exported overseas for first time; November 14, 1972 - registered "Casio" trademark (mechanical and manual calculators, and parts therefor);  November 1974 - CASIOTRON electronic wristwatch released; January 1984 - databank wristwatch that can store telephone numbers released; May 1985 - pocket-size LCD TV released; November 1997 - CASSIOPEIA handheld PC released in North America; April 2002 - first to deliver cellular phone with built-in digital camera, equipped with GPS.

Kashio brothers  (from left to right) -
Toshio, Kuzuo, Tadao, Yukio - CASIO Computers (http://www.casio-europe.com/euro/images/corporate/detail/1957.jpg)

May 7, 1946 - Masaru Ibuka (38), Akio Morita (25) established Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation), in Nihonbashi, Tokyo capital of just 190,000 yen, approximately 20 employees; September 1949 - first magnetic tape recorder prototype completed; March 1950 - launched Japan's first magnetite-coated, paper-based recording tape, “Soni-Tape”; July 1950 - launched first magnetic tape recorder; February 1955 - decided to use SONY logo on Totsuko products; January 1958 - company name changed to Sony Corporation; February 1960 - Sony Corporation of America established; October 18, 1960 - registered "Sony" trademark first used May 9, 1955 (radio, television, tape recorder, and accessories and parts thereof); June 1961 - first Japanese company to offer shares in United States in form of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs); March 1968 - established CBS/Sony Records Inc., 50-50 joint venture with CBS Inc. (renamed CBS Sony Inc. in August 1973; renamed  CBS/Sony Group Inc. in August 1983; became wholly-owned Sony subsidiary in January 1988; renamed Sony Music Entertainment Inc. in April 1991); October 1968 - introduced “Trinitron” color TV; September 1970 - listed on New York Stock Exchange; October 1982 - introduced world's first CD player (portable CD player in November 1984); January 1988 - acquired CBS Records Inc., records group of CBS; June 1989 - acquired Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (renamed Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. in August 1991); July 1997 - launched home-use PC (VAIO); October 2001 - established Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications; August 2004 - established Sony BMG Music Entertainment; April 2005 - acquired, in consortium, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (MGM).

Akio Morita, Masaru Ibuka  - Sony (http://img.timeinc.net/time/asia/magazine/2006/1113/sony.jpg)

May 16, 1946 - Jack Mullin demonstrated world's first magnetic tape recording device to Institute of Radio Engineers in San Francisco; modified version of German Magnetophones with ac biasing (added dc biasing); August 1947 - won contract to record, edit Bing Crosby's radio shows, "Philco Radio Time" on ABC radio; Crosby appointed Mullin as his chief engineer; invested $50,000 in AMPEX (founded in San Carlos, CA in 1944, acronym for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence - AMPEX) so that company could expand commercial production of Mullin's prototype reel-to-reel tape recorder (Bing Crosby Enterprises became its West coast distributor); 1948 - American Broadcasting Company used Ampex Model 200 audio recorder for first-ever U.S. tape delay radio broadcast of The Bing Crosby Show; recorders used by radio networks, leading recording studios.

February 1, 1947 - Toshio Iue, brother-in-law of Konosuke Matsushita, former president of shipbuilding subsidiary of Matsushita, founder of Panasonic Corp., founded SANYO ("three oceans") Electric Works (Honmachi, Moriguchi City, Osaka), with a loan of 500,000 yen from Sumitomo Bank plus 700,000 of his own capital, as bicycle-lamp maker; first model of bicycle generator lamp (Model 47) launched; February 1, 1947 - first SANYO Electric Plant started operation; April 1950 - founded SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (took over all business related to dynamo-powered bicycle lamps); 1952 - launched first plastic radio, SS-52; 1953 - launched Japan’s first pulsator-type washing machine, SW-53 (priced at about half of agitation-style machines); 1960 - introduced first tape recorder model, S-21MR; 1966 - launched first video tape recorder model for home use, VTR-1000; 1967 - established mass production system for color TVs, released Japan's first truly affordable model; 1976 - introduced CX-8176L thin calculator, first product employing lithium batteries,1980 - licensed lithium battery technology to Duracell Co., Ltd.; 1999 - in-house company management system introduced; eight business segments reorganized into five companies; 2004 - restructured; 2006 - received $2.6 billion bailout from Goldman Sachs Group-led consortium, result of grow-at-any-cost strategy, interests in too many product markets; 2007 - grandson of founder stepped down as President; ended family's leadership of company; December 17, 2008 - three largest shareholders agreed to sell 70% control to Panasonic Corp. (for $9.01 billion).

Toshio Iue - founded SANYO (http://www.sanyo.hu/regional/founder/founder.gif)

1947 - In-Hwoi Koo founded Lak Hui Chemical Industrial Corp.; 1952 - first Korean company to enter plastics industry; 1953 - established Lak Hui Industry (pronounCed 'lucky'); 1958 - established Goldstar Co., Ltd.; 1959 - produced first radio in Korea; 1960 - produced Korea's first electric fans; 1961 - developed first telephone in Korea; 1965 - developed first refrigerator in Korea; 1966 - developed first black and white TV in Korea; 1967 - Lak Hui Oil and Fat Industry developed first shampoo in Korea; 1968 - developed first room air conditioner in Korea; 1969 - developed first elevator, escalator, washing machine in Korea; 1977 - developed color television; 1979 - developed first videotape recorder in Korea; 1981 - Lucky Engineering developed first computer in Korea; 1982 - developed first color video camera in Korea; 1983 - developed first compact disc player in Korea; 1987 - developed first silicon wafer in Korea; 1995 - renamed LG Electronics Inc. (Lucky Goldstar); acquired Zenith, largest electronics company in United States; 2005 - world's largest seller of optical storage devices; fourth-largest supplier of mobile handsets market worldwide.

In-Hwoi Koo - founder, LG Group (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/hu/e/e0/In-Hwoi_Koo,LG_Group_Founder.jpg)

December 23, 1947 - John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratory in Murray Hill, NJ, first demonstrated transistor (name came from its electrical property known as trans-resistance); replaced bulkier vacuum tube, referred to as electronic engineer's dream; simple, tiny device utilized electronic semiconducting properties of  germanium wafer, represented significant advance in technology incorporated into electronic equipment as  functional replacement for vacuum tube, provided great savings in space, electrical power consumption; made possible small portable, battery-powered transistor radios sold to public by late 1954.

January 27, 1948 - Wire Recording Corporation of America announced 'Wireway' machine, first magnetic wire recorder; built-in oscillator, sold for $149.50.

September 7, 1948 - Louis W. Parker, of Woodside, NY, received a patent for a "Television Receiver" ("an improved way of separating and reproducing the video and audio components of the received television signal"); "intercarrier sound system" used in all television receivers in world.

October 1, 1949 - Kimble Glass Co., subsidiary of Owens-Illinois, delivered first practical rectangular television tube made in U.S.; sold for about $12; bulb face of tube measured approx. 12in. by 16in.

March 30, 1950 - Dr. John Northrup Shive, of Bell Telephone Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ), announced invention of  phototransistor, operated by light rather than electric current; used tiny chip of germanium, semiconductor material, but only single collector wire.

October 3, 1952 - Jack Mullin (electronics division of Bing Crosby Enterprises, Inc., Los Angeles, CA) made first U.S. video recording on magnetic tape; used 12-head Video Tape Recorder (one-inch tape running at 120 inches per second to record ten tracks of monochrome video information, clock track to control synchronization, FM audio track); gave credible results of off-air black and white recordings, one-third less costly than photographic methods, immediately available to reproduce on standard TV monitor tube as soon as tape  rewound.

November 11, 1952 - Inventors Jack Mullin, Wayne Johnson demonstrated first video recorder.

March 25, 1954 - RCA manufactured its first color TV set (12-inch screen for $1,000), began mass production.

October 18, 1954 - Texas Instruments announced first Transistor radio.

1955 - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (incorporated in 1935) created PanaSonic name ("pan" meaning "all" combined with "sonic" meaning "sound") for brand of audio speakers; February 5, 1957 - Matsushita Denki Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation (Osaka, Japan) registered Panasonic trademark (loud speakers and microphones and other public address systems, and magnetic recorders); 1966 - English lettering adopted; 1971 - logo revised.

April 14, 1956 - Ampex Corporation of Redwood City, CA demonstrated VT-100, first practical commercial black-and-white video recorder at broadcast convention in Chicago and simultaneously in Redwood City, CA; invented by Ray Dolby, Charles Ginsberg, Charles Anderson; recorded both images and sound; size of deep-freeze with additional five 6-foot racks of circuitry; 2-inch wide magnetic tape moved at speed of 15 inches per second; single 14-inch reel could carry a 65-min. recording; Columbia Broadcasting System purchased three at $75,000 for each unit.

April 16, 1956 - Admiral Corporation, Chicago, IL first sold  Sun Power Pak, radio made to run either on batteries or solar-cell power (electrical power from sunlight using a silicon "solar cell element"); used six transistors instead of vacuum tubes, six ordinary flashlight batteries could give 700 to 1,000 hours of use.

April 16, 1956 - First solar powered radios sold.

October 18, 1958 - William Higinbotham, nuclear physicist, head of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Instrumentation Division, created first video game, "Tennis for Two"; electronic tennis game with separate controllers that connected to analog computer, used oscilloscope for screen.

1960 - Dr. Henry Singleton, Dr. George Kozmetsky formed Teledyne ("Power Through Communication") to capitalize on coming revolution in digital technology (replace analog devices, systems).

June 24, 1963 - Norman Rutherford, Michael Turner, of Nottingham Electronic Valve Company (NEVC), developed  Telcan fixed-head longitudinal videotape, open-reel, recorder  for home-taping of television programs, first demonstrated at BBC Studios, London; mounted on top of  television cabinet, machine used quarter-inch tape running at 120 ips (10 feet/sec) past fixed heads, carried two low-resolution black and white 15-minute tracks; never went on sale; Telcan, NEVC collapsed.

June 7, 1965 - Sony Corporation unveiled videocassette recorder (VCR) FOR $995.00.

February 1972 - Andreas Pavel tested "stereobelt" in Switzerland; March 1977 - filed patent for device in Milan;  came to be known as "Walkman".

June 27, 1972 - Nolan Bushnell, Ted Dabney incorporated Atari, Inc. (named for Japanese word for 'check' in Go board game); introduced Pong; simulated table tennkis; September 1972 - first coin-operated Pong arcade game installed at Andy Capp's, tavern in Sunnyvale, CA; 1975 - introduced home version; November 28, 1978 - registered "Pong"  trademark first used in August 1972 (electronic amusement game apparatus  having video output display).

October 1977 - Atari released Atari 2600, Video Computer System (VCS); first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridges (9 available) instead of having one or more games built in; price $199; January 1980 - introduced Space Invaders; first company to port arcade game to cartridge.

February 14, 1978 - Graham S. Tubbs, of Houston, TX, received a patent for a "Digital Microprocessor System with Shared Decode" ("electronic digital processor system"); first "micro on a chip"; assigned to Texas Instruments Incorporated.

July 1, 1979 - Sony introduced Sony Walkman; 1980 - began royalty negotiations with Andreas Pavel; 1986 - agreed to limited fee arrangement; 1989 - initiated new royalty suit in Britain; 1996 - case dismissed; 2003 - Sony settled out of court (cash settlement for damages reported to be in low 8 figures plus royalties on some Walkman sales).

October 10, 1979 - Namco released Pac-Man arcade game to Japanese market.

June 17, 1980 - Atari's "Asteroids", "Lunar Lander" first two video games registered in Copyright Office.

March 22, 1981 - RCA first put SelectaVision VideoDisc on sale (exactly 10 years after RCA applied for first patents); based on electronic capacitance technology, marvel of mass-production research and development, able to play two-hour movie on twelve-inch, fifteen-dollar record on $500 player; arrived on market too late to compete (VCR's had dropped in price during development phase); April 1984 - manufacturing abandoned.

January 20, 1982 - Hitachi, JVC, Philips, Matsushita,  Sony agreed to cooperate on construction of camcorder: 

August 17, 1982 - N.V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken, Hanover, Germany, produced compact disc of "The Visitors" by Abba; November 1982 - went on sale; beginning of digital era in sound and image.

October 1, 1982 - CBS/Sony introduced compact discs (CD) optical disc media in Japan with 112 different CD titles, CD player (Sony's CDP-101); 120-mm (4.7-in.) diameter plastic disk, used tiny pits read by laser to reproduce sound or other information; two major CD plants: PolyGram's Hanover, West Germany plant, Sony's plant in Japan; advantages over phonograph record, recording tape: smaller size, greater dynamic range, extremely low distortion; sold over 20,000 CD players; June 1983 - CBS shipped first CD "prepacks; 1983 - sales totaled about 30,000 players, 800,000 discs; 1984 - first large US plant, Sony subsidiary, Digital Audio Disc Corporation (DADC), opened in Terre Haute, IN; 1985 - sales totals to 22 million discs; 1987 - over 200 labels issued CDs, over 100 million discs for market of 9 million CD players; 1991 - music carrier of choice, sales exceeded those of audiocassettes.

January 17, 1984 - U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that private use of home video cassette recorders to tape TV programs did not violate federal copyright laws.

October 30, 1987 - In Japan, NEC released first 16-bit home entertainment system, the PC-Engine.

September 27, 1989 - Sony Corp. completed acquisition of  CBS Records, world's biggest record company, for $3.4 billion; deal included CBS's global manufacturing plants, subsidiary companies, 10,000 employees, Columbia House, direct-mail music club.

September 29, 1998 - Keith E. Thurston, of Ottawa, ON,  Kenneth G. Thurston;, of Gloucester, ON, received a design patent for a "Hand Controller for Video Game".

November 7, 2008 - Samsung Electronics Co. (South Korea) overtook Motorola Inc. as leading vendor of handsets in U.S. for first time in third quarter ( 22.4% of market compared with Motorola's 21.1%, LG Electronics Co. 20.5%; source: Strategy Analytics Inc.); offered carriers full portfolio of devices (high-end products to lower-end phones given free to customers who signed up with particular carrier); Research in Motion - 10.2% share of high end of U. S. market (vs. 5.7% for Apple's iPhone; 6.9% globally vs. 6% global share for RIM.

2009 - U.S. revenues for videogames amounted to $20 billion, twice as much as Hollywood blockbuster; world-wide videogame revenues at $110 billion (source: Avista Partners); budget to produce A-level console videogame (Gears of War, Red Dead Redemption, Halo) between $10 million-$50 million.

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Paul V. Galvin and Joseph E. Galvin - Motorola (http://content.answers.com/main/ content/img/CDE/_GALVIN.GIF)

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Cecil H. Green - co-founder Texas Instruments (http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/images/bio_green.jpg)

Patrick Eugene Haggerty - co-founder Texas Instruments (http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/images/bio_haggerty.jpg

J. Erik Jonsson - co-founder Texas Instruments (http://www.skidmore.edu/centennial/images/jonsson.gif)

Eugene McDermott - co-founder Texas Instruments (http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/images/bio_mcdermott.jpg)

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Business History Links

Consumer Electronics Association                                                      http://www.ce.org                                                    

Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) membership unites 2000 companies within the U.S. consumer technology industry. CEA's mission is to grow the consumer electronics industry. industry authority on market research and forecasts; consumer surveys; legislative and regulatory news; engineering standards; training resources and more.

The Philo T. Farnsworth Archives                                             http://philotfarnsworth.com                                           

Official site about Philo Farnsworth, credited with inventing television in the 1920s. Find a brief chronology, photos of Farnsworth (who died in 1971) and his wife Pem (who died in 2006), early television tubes, and the controlling patent for television. Includes a list of patents held by Farnsworth and a bibliography. Site created and maintained by the Farnsworth family.

History of the Transistor                                                          http://www.pbs.org/transistor/                                         

"The Transistor was probably the most important invention of the 20th Century, and the story behind the invention is one of clashing egos and top secret research." - Ira Flatow, Transistorized!

International Center for the History of Electronic Games                          http://www.thestrong.org/online-collections/icheg/

The Strong is a "highly interactive, collections-based educational institution devoted to the study and exploration of play." One of its programmatic "arms" is the International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG) - 17,000 different items related to the history of gaming; divided into seven categories (including "Console Games", "Handhelds", and "Arcade Games"). Each item contains a brief description, game’s manufacturer, materials, and country of origin; can investigate the physical appearance of arcade classics like Donkey Kong, Popeye, and Dug Out.Transistorized!

Pacific Pinball Museum                                                                  http://pacificpinball.org/
To teach science, art and history through pinball, and to preserve and promote this important part of American culture; dedicated to the promotion and preservation of one of America's great pastimes.

Sony History                                                                                   http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/

Video Game Revolution                                                                                     http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/history/index.html 

Over the past 30 years, video games have become an integral part of our culture, and the video game industry has become a multi-billion dollar behemoth. Follow the journey of video games from university laboratories to our living rooms.