SHARP 2012 - 100th. ANNIVERSARY

SHARP is founded by Tokuji Hayakawa in 1912 and the name is derived from an ever ready pencil invented in 1915. The pencil is of course called SHARP PENCIL. A decade later, assembly of Japan's first crystal radio set came out of the production line in 1925.

We watched the first television set in black and white somewhere in the middle of 1967 and it was a SHARP. It was bought 14 years after Japan's first mass production of SHARP TV SETS in 1953. More interestingly, when Japan's first mass production of microwave conceived in 1962, I was still a baby. And even before I started my primary school education, SHARP has introduced the world's first all-transistor electronic desktop calculator 1964. (The calculator is displayed at the Science Museum, England in 1984)

Rapidly, from 1969 to 1973 to 1979, the introduction of the world's first electronic calculator incorporating LSIS; the development of the world's first electronic pocket-sized calculator incorporating LCD; and the development and introduction of world's first super-thin 1.6mm calculator took place.

We also did not forget that we used the world's first PC/TV combo set from 1988; watched movie at the 14-inch colour TFT LCD unit (1988), the world's first too; video with the world's first LCD Viewcam (1992); and got good assistance from the Zaurus, the all-in-one personal information tool from 1993.

After the new millineum, we enjoy the comfort of the Plasmacluster Ion Air Purification, to the excellent AQUOS Quattron 3D LED TV



I had used this calculator.

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