However when they were able to see a demonstration of a WilcoxGay tape recorder used by the occupying forces, it was decided this was their future. The Sony founders obtained a military wire recorder, as well as a Webster Chicago wire recorder from the US and began experimenting with recording. Initial developments included an electric rice heater and an electric heating pad. The first Sony-branded product, the TR-55 transistor radio, appeared in 1955 but the company name did not change to Sony until January 1958. One was the Latin word 'Sonus', which is the root of sonic and sound, and the other was 'Sonny', a familiar term used in 1950s America to call a boy. The name 'Sony' was chosen for the brand as a mix of two words. Sony was founded as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, Ltd. Masaru Ibuka (left), the co-founder of Sony Sony remains one of the world’s largest media conglomerates, with over 158,000 employees worldwide and revenues in excess of US $63 billion. In 1958 the company name was changed to Sony The company built Japan's first tape recorder, called the Type-G. ] The next year, he was joined by his colleague, Akio Morita, and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). The company had $530 in capital and a total of eight employees. In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in a bomb-damaged department store building in Tokyo. Sony found its beginning in the wake of World War II. Superscope Technologies, 1508 Batavia Avenue, Geneva, IL 60134, founded 1954Īkio Morita (right) - Sony founder, Born January 26, 1921, Nagoya, Aichi – Died October 3, 1999, Tokyo View calendar which lists company creation dates associated with world and recording historyġ-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0075, Japan view overview video of tape recorder collection.We always invite input on corrections and updates. We include personal stories about the companies when they are provided to us. While we have strived to provide the best information available to us, there will be corrections and additions. Is a list of information we have gathered from a variety of sources on some of the major analog reel to reel tape recorder and related equipment manufacturers. We do NOT provide copies of ads, nor photos from other sources! All photo work is billed at studio rates and a deposit is required. Photos of items in our collection are available for sale.All pictures and content on this web site are the property of the Theophilus family,the Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording and.© 2018 Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording

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