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90 Years

of Design and Innovation

Key Products through the Decades

1918

Attachment Plug

In 1918, Konosuke Matsushita rented a two-story home, establishing Matsushita Electric Devices Manufacturing Works on the first floor. In his larger workshop, Konosuke was able to expand production to include the innovative attachment plug and

atwo-way socket – earning the company a reputation for high quality at low prices.

1931

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Radio broadcasting was

rapidly catching on in Japanese households, but the radio sets the nation was tuning in on were prone to problems. Konosuke Matsushita himself was irritated to have a programme he was enjoying cut short, and so set out to design a radio that “wouldn’t break down”.

1952

M TV 17K-531

Gearing up for the open experiment held in Kyoto before the full-blown start of Japanese TV broadcasting in 1953, a group of engineers joined forces to complete the development of the first National TV set, the 17K-531, in only two months.

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