History of Hitachi, Ltd.

• Developed fully automated washer
• Completed experimental nuclear reactor

• Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. established

• Completed 265,000 kW impulse reheating-type, cross-compound turbine
• Released the first large-scale computer developed exclusively with Hitachi's own domestic technology

• Completed the first cars for the Shinkansen (Bullet Train)
• Developed train seat reservation system
• Manufactured monorail running between Haneda Airport and Hamamatsu-cho, Tokyo

• Began mass production of color television tubes using rare earth phosphor material

• Developed LTP processing of a silicon transistor

• Developed dry-type room air conditioner

• Developed hybrid LSI
• Developed computer for controller's use
• Developed 300m/min. elevators for high-rise buildings

• Completed on-line banking system
• Developed and mass-produced all-transistor color televisions
• Developed audio system with two-way speaker

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• Developed computer-aided traffic control system for the Shinkansen (Bullet Train) *5
• Completed prototype of visual information processing robot

• Completed file storage device with 1GB capacity

• Developed new heat-resistant insulating materials
• Developed new-type image pickup tube

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• Commercial operation began at Japan's first 460,000 kW nuclear power station
• Completed automated semiconductor assembly (LSI, transistor wire bonding)
• Released the first series of general-purpose large-scale computers *6

• Developed high-performance heat transfer tube
• Hitachi High Crown Control Mill developed

• Succeeded in the world's first experiment of fiber optic communication systems

• Developed high-speed amino-acids analyzer
• Construction of "FUGEN," the prototype of a new converter reactor
• Completed world's first field emission electron microscope with record-high resolution

• Experimental color camera with solid-state miniature image device developed
• Released the world's largest and fastest computer at that time

• Completed world's first puffer type, 1-cycle gas circuit breaker prototype