Tanaka Hisashige
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 143 years ago |
Date of birth | October 16,1799 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Kurume |
Fukuoka Prefecture | |
Japan | |
Date of died | November 7,1881 |
Died | Tokyo |
Japan | |
Inventions | Myriad year clock |
Founded | Toshiba |
Tanaka Seisakusho | |
Job | Engineer |
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ID | 1787400 |
Tanaka Hisashige Life story
Tanaka Hisashige was a Japanese rangaku scholar, engineer and inventor during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period in Japan. In 1875, he founded what became the Toshiba Corporation. He has been called the "Thomas Edison of Japan" or "Karakuri Giemon. "