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Gerard Philips (1858–1942), founder. The Philips Company was founded in 1891, by Dutch entrepreneur Gerard Philips and his father Frederik Philips. Frederik, a banker based in Zaltbommel, financed the purchase and setup of an empty factory building in Eindhoven, where the company started the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products in 1892.
t. e. The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) [ 9][ 10] is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kind of digital data and has been widely used to store video programs (watched using DVD ...
DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997. [ 1] It is designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including its content, release date, and price, all according to the appropriate region. This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will play back ...
Sony's first product was an electric rice cooker in the late 1940s. [18]Sony began in the wake of World War II. In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in Shirokiya, [19] a department store building in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo.
World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign states and dependent territories.
Below is a list of Amazon's retail locations, as of September 2021. Most of the stores are located inside of the United States, but Whole Foods also operates stores in Canada and the United Kingdom, while Amazon Go has six locations in London under the Amazon Fresh name. [80] [81] Whole Foods Market (527) [82] [83] Amazon Books (24) Amazon Go (30)
Former union territories of India [53] [60] Name Zone Capital Area Begin End Successor(s) Map Arunachal Pradesh: North-Eastern: Itanagar: 83,743 km 2 (32,333 sq mi) 21 January 1972: 20 February 1987: As an Indian state Dadra and Nagar Haveli: Western: Silvassa: 491 km 2 (190 sq mi) 11 August 1961: 26 January 2020: Dadra and Nagar Haveli and ...