Toshiba

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Toshiba is a major Japanese company.

Tōkyō Shibaura Denki K.K. (東京芝浦電気㈱) resulted in 1939 from the merge of Tōkyō Denki and Shibaura Seisakusho. It became K.K. Tōshiba (㈱東芝), translated as Toshiba Corporation, in 1978.

The Mazda (マツダ) brand, inherited from Tōkyō Denki, was used by Tōkyō Shibaura Denki on flash bulbs. Mazda filters were also sold in 1939.[1]

The Toshiba company is currently making consumer digital cameras and industrial video cameras.

List of Toshiba cameras

  • Toshiba PDR-M25
  • Toshiba PDR 3300

Notes

  1. Advertisement on p.26 of Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin, December 15, 1939, reproduced on p.60 of Hyaku-gō goto jūkai no kiroku.

Bibliography

  • Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin (日本写真興業通信). Hyaku-gō goto jūkai no kiroku (百号ごと十回の記録, Ten records, every hundred issues). Tokyo: Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin Sha (日本写真興業通信社), 1967. No ISBN number. Advertisements on pp.54 and 60, corresponding to pp.20 and 26 of the December 15, 1939 issue.

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