Founded by Namihei Odaira as an electrical repair shop
Suceeded in first domestic manufacture of three 5hp (3.6775 kW) electric motors
as the company's first products
Completed 2 kVA transformer
Began manufacture of alternating current galvanometers and voltmeters
Completed 10,000hp (7,355kW) water turbine
Began manufacture of electric fans
Completed the first large-scale DC electric locomotives to be manufactured
in Japan
Began the manufacture of pole-mounted transformer
Completed 10,000 A hydraulic electrolytic cell
Began the manufacture of elevators
Completed Hitachi's first electric refrigerator
Completed 23,600hp Ilgner set
Completed an automatic telephone exchange with 5,000 lines
Completed 85,000 kW Francis water turbine and 70,000 kVA alternating current
generator
Completed Hitachi's first power shovel
Completed 6,500 kW Kaplan turbine and 7,000 kVA alternating current generator
Completed 21,000 kW two-stage pump-turbine
Completed low-pressure 300m3/h air separator
Completed the first large-scale cold strip mill to be produced in Japan
Completed 100,000kW Francis water turbine and 93,000 kVA alternating current
generator
Hitachi Cable, Ltd. and Hitachi Metals, Ltd. established
Completed Japan's first diesel electric locomotive
Electron microscopes awarded the grand prix at the World Exposition in Brussels
Completed 6-transistor portable radio
Completed electronic computers based on transistors
Hitachi America, Ltd. established
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
Developed computer-aided traffic control system for the Shinkansen (Bullet Train)
Completed prototype of visual information processing robot
Completed file storage device with 1GB capacity
Completed file storage device with 1GB capacity
Developed new heat-resistant insulating materials
Developed new-type image pickup tube
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
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
Completed 300 MW high-voltage direct current transmission between Hokkaido and
Honshu
Completed nuclear fusion equipment
Developed magnetic recording video camera
Established color picture tube dry process technology
Hitachi Europe Ltd. established
Succeeded in world's first micro-level observation of magnetic field by the use of electron beam holography
Hitachi's first supercomputer announced
Listed on New York Stock Exchange
Hitachi Australia Ltd. established
Manufactured 1-megabit high-speed CMOS mask ROM
Developed air conditioners with scroll compressors
Completed Japan's first model of improved standard-type boiling water reactor
Started mass production of 256-kilobit DRAMs
Completed the "JT-60" large-scale Tokamak device for break-even plasma
experiments
Developed CAD/CAE systems with high-definition color displays
The Hitachi Foundation was established to promote cultural, educational and scientific exchanges between Japan and the U.S.
Released the first large-scale computer with fully applied LSI
Completed scanning electron microscope that can record electron spin
Put fuzzy control to a practical use
Completed rear-projection large liquid crystal color display
Developed basic technology of neural network
Developed 4-legged robot
Design Center upgrade brings corporate laboratory count to nine
Hitachi Asia Pte. Ltd. established
Developed world's fastest superconductive computer
Developed superconductive MR imaging equipment
Established two R&D centers in the U.S. and two laboratories in Europe
Developed high-definition TFT color liquid crystal display
Developed an experimental 64-megabit DRAM
Released very large-scale computer with the world's fastest processing speed at that time
Developed inverter-controlled electric locomotive with the world's largest control
capacity
Developed highly sensitive image pickup tubes
Completed system for 500kV transformer substation
Developed personal facsimile
Developed atomic observation and manipulation technology using scanning tunneling microscope
Hitachi (China), Ltd. established
Developed the original 32-bit RISC processor SuperH family
Developed the brand new ATM which enables bills to be pressed and disinfected
Succeeded in developing the experimental 1-gigabit DRAM chip
Developed Super TFT LCD module featuring ultra-wide viewing angles
Developed 10 Gbit/s fiber optic transmission equipment
Developed electronic commerce-related products
Developed MPEG camera
Developed contactless IC Card system
Developed rewritable, large-capacity DVD-RAM drive
Developed 320 Gbit/s optical data transmission system
Developed 128-megabit single-electron memory
Developed PAM control refrigerator/air conditioner
Established dependable autonomous hard real-time management technology
Developed 52.5 Gbits/in perpendicular magnetic recording method
Developed Notary and Certificate Authority systems for e-goverment
Developed mobile web-gateway system
Developed application processor for mobile phones
Developed world's first silent liquid-cooling notebook PC
Developed world's smallest 0.3 mm square contactless IC chip
Developed compact DNA analysis system genetic for SNP typing
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Footnotes & References
| 1 | This company history is adapted from www.hitachi.com site and supplemented with the project's data |
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