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Japanese entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Hitachi
- Namihei Odaira (小平 浪平, Odaira Namihei, January 15, 1874 – October 5, 1951) was a Japanese entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Hitachi.
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Namihei Odaira (小平 浪平, Odaira Namihei, January 15, 1874 – October 5, 1951) was a Japanese entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Hitachi .
Mar 28, 2024 · Namihei Odaira, Hitachi’s founder. Namihei Odaira was born in 1874 in Ienaka Village (present-day Tochigi City), Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. When he was a student, he chose to study electrical engineering.
Hitachi’s founder Namihei Odaira was born three years before Hesse, in 1874. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University, he went on to work at Kosaka mine, the Hiroshima Hydroelectric Power Company, Tokyo Electric Light Company, and, in 1906, at Hitachi mine.
Dec 20, 2023 · Hitachi founder Namihei Odaira was born in Tochigi Prefecture in 1874. As Japan struggled to overcome the challenges toward modernization, he developed the founding product "five-horsepower induction motor" while working in a repair shop of a mine.
Hitachi’s founder Namihei Odaira was born three years before Hesse, in 1874. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University, he went on to work at Kosaka mine, the Hiroshima Hydroelectric Power Company, Tokyo Electric Light Company, and, in 1906, at Hitachi mine.
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…in 1910 with its founder, Odaira Namihei, operating an electrical repair shop at a copper mine northeast of Tokyo. While repairing machinery for the mine, Odaira began to experiment with his own designs, and that same year he manufactured the first domestically produced 5-horsepower (3.7-kilowatt) electric motor.
Jun 18, 2020 · One of the foremost pioneer industrialists in the electrical industry was born in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan on January 15, 1874. His name was Namihei Odaira, the founder of Hitachi Ltd., Japan’s largest manufacturer of electrical machineries and a leading producer of semiconductors.
