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1941 |
Plant requisitioned by Army Aerial Headquarters
Begins production of military communications equipment
Markets SB-500 5-tube "Super Radio" featuring push-button station selection
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Pacific War begins (December 8)
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1942 |
Changes company name to Hayakawa Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Establishes new research laboratory to study short-wave and ultra-short wave technology
Begins production of aerial radio equipment
Makes Lighthouse Factory, which employed ex-soldiers blinded during war, auxiliary plant of the company
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1944 |
Establishes plant in Izumi-Fuchu, Osaka
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Establishes Kyoto Plant
United Nations established (October 24)
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1946 |
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World's first electronic calculator built at University of Pennsylvania, US
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1947 |
Sells Kyoto and Izumi-Fuchu plants
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Promulgation of Japanese Constitution (May 3)
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1948 |
Invention of the transistor in the US
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1949 |
Public stock offering, company listed on Osaka Stock Exchange
Markets PR-2 portable radio
Markets H-185 portable collapsible electric iron
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Dodge Line
Hideki Yukawa awarded Nobel Prize for physics (December 10)
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1950 |
Faces fear of bankruptcy
Plant for the blind incorporated and becomes Tokusen Metal Limited Partnership (now Sharp Tokusen Industry Co.), a jointly capitalized corporation with capital of 150,000 yen (August)
Markets new "Super Radio"
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Korean War begins (June 25)
Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation (now Sony Corporation) markets tape recorder |
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