Oki Kibatarō
Japanese engineer
Oki Kibatarō (沖 牙太郎; 1848–1906) was a Japanese businessman and telecommunications engineer formerly employed at a Japanese Ministry of Industry (Kōbushō) factory. In 1877, only a year after Alexander Graham Bell's invention, Kōbushō had started an effort to make telephone receivers by reverse engineering and Oki was in the team that came up with the first prototype.2
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Born 1848, died 1906.1
About
In January 1881, convinced that the nation was about to enter the age of communications, Oki founded Meikōsha, which was later renamed Oki Electric Industry. The company manufactured the first telephones in Japan in 1881, only five years after the device was invented by Bell.
From Wikipedia’s article on Oki Kibatarō, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- Oki Electric IndustryFounder9
Early life and education
- Date not recordedUniversity of Tokyo3
Career
Occupation: entrepreneur, engineer.5
- Date not recordedFounded Oki Electric Industry4
Personal life
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- 1WikidataOki Kibatarō on Wikidata
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- 9WikidataOki Electric Industry, Founder
- 10Wikimedia CommonsOki Kibatarō photo by 加藤木重教, Public domain