HISTORY OF PHILIPS INCLUDING BRAZIL

When the famous inventor Thomas Alva Edison in 1879 demonstrated his electric light bulb in Menlo Park, New York, it caught the attention of a Dutch student of mechanical engineering, then 21, called GERARD PHILIPS (1858-1942).

The foundation of Philips & Co. was founded 12 years later (1891) in the city of Eindhoven (Netherlands) with an initial capital of 75,000 Guilders financed by his father, the banker Frederik Philips (1830-1900) and 10 employees, with the purpose of manufacturing carbon filaments for incandescent lamps and luminaries in a room of 18 x 20 feet.

After one year of operation, he receives a package of bulbs from a major manufacturer of candles, its daily production rising to 500 lamps in 1895. It was a big production for a small country like the Netherlands. This time due to financial difficulties, he started thinking about acting outside the country, and for that, invites his younger brother Anton Philips (1874-1951) to participate in this challenge.

The business thrives and before the turn of the century, is the largest PHILIPS lamp factory in the world. In 1912 the name PHILIPS & CO is changed to "NV Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken" (publicly traded company) and in 1914 it opened the famous physics laboratory (NATLAB), where many inventions, researches and discoveries are made.

During the the first world war its products are marketed in America and France. In 1918 Philips begins producing radio TUBES or valves. A curious fact is that Philips just after starting the manufacture of valves, has launched a series of low power filament suitable for use in battery operated equipment, (very common back then) terming them "miniwatt". Later, the term miniwatt tonou become synonymous with Philips valves.

In the 1920’s, as part of a successful program of diversification in its activities, the Philips group is present in many countries, such as Spain, Poland, Norway, China, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Brazil, England Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Germany and Australia, in addition to representative offices in New Zealand, Romania, Portugal, Algeria, Yugoslavia, Israel, Luxembourg, India, Greece, Turkey and Japan. All branches are supplied with materials manufactured by Matrix in Eindhoven, Holland. 

From that moment on, Philips goes to patent their innovations in the areas of radiography (RX) and receiving radio waves. 

PHILIPS also commonly in the early '20s, began production of a number of components used in the construction of electronics such as battery charger, the rectifier, and components for transmission and reception.

On July 28, 1924, it opened a branch in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, for the import and sale of products manufactured Philips in Eindhoven. 

In Brazil, Philips growth process was similar to what happened in America. As stated above, Philips was present with offices in Rio de Janeiro since 1924 and during World War II, mid 1941, trying to escape the conflict between Germany and other countries of Europe, a neutral state seeks to develop new technologies . With this, discovers the necessity of the Brazilian Armed Forces in having an electronics industry in the country. In the early 40s, the communication equipment of the Brazilian armed forces were obsolete. Prevented from renewing them because of world conditions WWII beyond the fact that most of these devices are manufactured by Telefunken (German) Thus, the Philips group establishing a partnership with the Cacique (The Cacique -. "Industry Paulista electricity "- was founded in 1933 by a group of pioneers dedicated to the manufacture of radios), thus appearing to INBELSA -" Brazilian Electricity Industry S / A. "- which played an important role in the development of telecommunications in Brazil in the 50s and 60 manufacturing and other items, transceivers OC. Similarly this happens with IBRAPE (Brazilian Industry of Electronic Products) and Philips in Brazil.

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