In 1876, Hisashige Tanaka started a business manufacturing telegraph parts under the name Tanaka Seizo-sho, changing its name in 1904 to Shibaura Seisaku-sho. 1890, the company Hakunetsu-sha is founded, dedicated to the manufacture of lamps In 1939 both companies merged to form Tokyo Shibaura Denki, but the public began to call it To-Shiba, and in 1978 it formally adopted the name Toshiba .
Today, Toshiba headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is dedicated to the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment, and occupies one of the first places in sales worldwide in sales of laptops.
