What is Toshiba?
{{Infobox company | name = Toshiba | logo = Toshiba logo.svg | image = File:Hamamatsucho Building.JPG | image_caption = Main office in Japan | founded = July 1875 (as Tanaka Seisakusho) | founder = Tanaka Hisashige | hq_location = Minato, Tokyo, Japan }} '''Toshiba''' is a [[Japan]]ese multinational company. Its diversified products include [[information technology]] and [[telecommunication]] equipment and systems, electronic components and materials, power systems, industrial and social infrastructure systems, household appliances, medical equipment and lighting.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Toshiba to launch quantum cryptography services this year|url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Toshiba-to-launch-quantum-cryptography-services-this-year|access-date=2021-06-14|website=Nikkei Asia|language=en-GB}}</ref> Toshiba Corporation was started in 1939, by two companies, a [[telegraph]] [[manufacturer]] and a [[light bulb]] maker.<!-- en says that it branched into other things, not sure how to simplify --> ==History== *July 11, 1875, Tanaka Hisashige strarted an [[electric]] equipment factory which was the first in Japan to produce telegraphs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Toshiba Science Museum : Tokyo Period|url=https://toshiba-mirai-kagakukan.jp/en/learn/history/toshiba_history/spirit/hisashige_tanaka/p01_5.htm|access-date=2021-06-14|website=toshiba-mirai-kagakukan.jp}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2015-07-21|title=Toshiba chief executive resigns over scandal|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-33605638|access-date=2021-06-14}}</ref> *1939 Toshiba was founded in 1939 as '''Tokyo Shibaura Electric K.K.''' through the merger of Shibaura Seisaku-sho (founded in 1875) and Tokyo Denki (founded in 1890). ==Products and services== *TV *[[Blu-ray Disc]] *PC *elevators and escalators *control systems (including air-traffic control systems, railway systems, security systems and traffic control systems) *medical equipment (including CT and MRI scanners, ultrasound equipment and X-ray equipment) *3D t