Masaru Ibuka
11 April 1908 – 19 December 1997
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and businessman who co-founded Sony with Akio Morita in 1946. Under his technical direction the company produced Japan's first magnetic tape recorder, licensed transistor technology from Bell Laboratories and released early transistor radios and televisions. He served as the company's president and later its chairman, and wrote on early childhood education.
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Life events
Born in Nikkō; his father, an engineer, died when he was a small child.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTook a degree in electrical engineering, earning a nickname as a gifted inventor among his classmates.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgSet up a wartime company making precision optical and electronic devices, where he met Akio Morita.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgEstablished the telecommunications engineering company with Akio Morita in a bombed-out Tokyo department store building.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Type-G recorder was sold largely to schools and courts.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgNegotiated rights to the transistor, which the company applied to consumer radios.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgJapan's first commercially produced transistor radio established the company's reputation for miniaturisation.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTokyo Tsushin Kogyo adopted the shorter name it had been using as a brand for export markets.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHanded the presidency to Akio Morita and turned to writing on early childhood education, publishing Kindergarten Is Too Late.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied at the age of 89 after a period of declining health.
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