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In January 100 years research units Philips. We remember what we owe momentous developments «Apple of the time».
Philips' most long for a hundred, some only their lamps illuminate the Winter Palace for 116 years. In 1898, it was the first international contract for Philips, then they put hundreds of lamps, candles in Tsarist Russia. But a relatively young branch of the company that created the X-ray tube, a little less. The main directions established in 1914 units Philips NatLab began research in the field of lighting, as well as radio and electronic technologies. 1918
X-ray tube
Prior to Philips tubes manufactured by only a few German manufacturers were indecently expensive. In 1918 the company introduced its first medical X-ray tube, made a breakthrough in the fight against tuberculosis. Today there are several generations of X-ray systems, including computer tomography Philips, allows you to make the most complex studies of the human body.





1927
Radio Philips
The first radio Philips, consisting entirely of components created company. In the same year he gave the first audio message on shortwave over a distance of more than 14 000 km - in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). It was a record at the time.



1939
Electric shaver Philishave
Having the two diplomas Delft University of Technology, the 25-year-old Alexander Horowitz got to Philips in 1929. Due to economic difficulties the company was looking for new solutions. At that time, electric shavers have been released in America, Horowitz and set about trying to create a more advanced version. As a result of long work of scientists developed the first model Philishave, which is based on the principle laid down spinning blades.



1963
Compact cassette
In 1963 was released the first audio cassette. For 35 years, the compact cassette was the main sound carrier and the most used recording device, later it was replaced by CD-ROM. The first cassette Philips engineer Lou Ottens decided to focus on ease of use, "cassette was placed in the pocket, and the player - to be easy to use."



1969
Boombox
The first portable radio and cassette player sold under the name Radiorecorder. In 1980 Boomboxes acquired mass popularity. An interesting feature was the fact that while the rest of the devices are constantly decreased in size, Boombox strictly grew. The reason was that the size of the speakers predetermined depth and bass, respectively, the sound quality.



1982
CD-ROM
In 1977 he created the first prototype of the CD-player, consisting only of the disc mechanism and laser control module. However, the very electronic signal reading is still occupy much space, so was placed in a box, which during a demonstration hid behind the scenes. Development of a more practical player require prior establishment of a special chip. Then, Sony and Philips have decided to join forces and work together to develop the ideal CD-system. New CD-player was introduced in Japan in 1982, and a year later appeared on the market in Europe. In 1983, Philips made a technological revolution, releasing CDs.



2000
DVD-player
Together with a number of other partner companies was created disc on DVD. Later in 2000, Philips brought the product to a new level and introduced the DVD + R - drive that allows to record your own audio, video and text with the amount of memory, surpassing CD-ROM seven times.



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