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Siemens

Siemens AG is a German technology company, headquartered in Munich, that makes industrial technology, infrastructure, transport systems and medical equipment. It was founded in Berlin in 1847, and for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, it reported revenue of 78.9 billion euros and 318,000 employees. History of Siemens Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg

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Siemens is a German technology company, founded in Berlin in 1847 and headquartered in Munich, that makes industrial, infrastructure and medical technology.

Sony headquarters building in Tokyo, Japan

Sony

Sony Group Corporation is a Japanese company headquartered in Tokyo that operates electronics, image sensor, video game, film and television, and music businesses. For its fiscal year ended March 31, 2026, it reported sales of 12.48 trillion yen, according to its annual report on Form 20-F filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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A Japanese multinational in Tokyo with electronics, image sensor, PlayStation game, film and music businesses.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (1847 to 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who ran some of the first industrial research laboratories. His teams developed the phonograph, a practical system of incandescent electric lighting and an early motion picture camera. He is also remembered for turning invention into an organized, team-based business. Early life of Thomas

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Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who built a famous research laboratory and developed the phonograph and a practical electric lighting system.

LCD touchscreen stations in a music store

Touchscreen

A touchscreen is a display that also senses where a finger or stylus touches it, so a person can control a device by pressing, tapping or swiping directly on the image. It pairs a screen, such as a liquid crystal display or an OLED panel, with a sensing layer that reports the position of each

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A display that also detects the position of a finger or stylus touching it, letting people control a device by pressing directly on the image.

An electrical substation transformer

Transformer

A transformer is an electrical device that transfers energy between two or more circuits through electromagnetic induction, typically used to increase or decrease voltage without changing the frequency of the alternating current passing through it. Transformers are essential throughout electrical power systems, stepping voltage up for efficient long-distance transmission and back down to safe levels

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An electrical device that transfers energy between circuits through electromagnetic induction, raising or lowering voltage.

Replica of the first working point-contact transistor built at Bell Laboratories in 1947

Transistor

A transistor is a small semiconductor device that can amplify an electrical signal or switch it on and off. It was demonstrated at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey in late 1947, and its inventors received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Transistors replaced vacuum tubes in most electronics and are the basic building blocks

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A small semiconductor device that amplifies or switches electrical signals, first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories in 1947.