The History of Philips.

In 1891, Gerard Philips founded the Philips company in Eindhoven. The very first factory (now being turned into the Philips Museum) specialized in making lightbulbs and other electro-technical equipment until the 1920s when the company expanded into vacuum tube manufacturing. 


In 1927, the company began broadcasting over the radio to the Dutch East Indies. The station, originally called PCJ, became Radio Netherlands, which still airs to this day.

In the spring of 1930, Joris Evens the Dutch-born documentarist, received an invitation from the publicity department of Philips radio company to make this film of its factory.

Until 1940, the company was run entirely out of Eindhoven. However, that year the company's directors fled to the United States upon news of the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, taking a large part of the company with them.

The original production facility was bombed by the Allies during the liberation of the Netherlands, but the company continued to operate out of the U.S. throughout the war. Following the end of the war, the company returned to Eindhoven, and the rest, as they say, is history.

With inventions such as the cassette tape and the company's entrance into the music business with Philips Records, it became a global force in the electronics world and continues to be so today.

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