Matsushita's products were originally marketed under the name brand of " National " and later moved on to the more recognizable names of Panasonic, Quasar and Technics.

From 1950 to 1973, Matsushita's company became one of the world ’ s largest manufacturers of electrical goods, sold under well-known trademarks including Panasonic and Technics.

As the mid 1980s arrived, sales were lost to competitors ( Sony, Pioneer, Matsushita's Technics ).

There were three specific products that were being created in Matsushita's company at this time: the bicycle lamp and battery division, the electrical socket division, and the radio division.

The program claimed that Matsushita's acquisition was nothing more than a ruse designed for Japanese-made sets, and sets assembled of Japanese parts, to avoid tariffs, with sets under the Quasar brand still being considered " domestically made ", although Quasar's United States-based engineering, management and manufacturing division was being scaled-down.

was a brand used by Panasonic Corporation ( formerly Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd .) to sell home appliances, personal appliances, and industrial appliances and was the first name used by Konosuke Matsushita's electric firm to sell his battery-powered bicycle lamps, hoping that they would be a product used by all of Japan, hence the name " National ".

In 2004, the " National " brand was gradually phased out in Asia, the last market it was used in, with most products being rebadged under the " Panasonic " brand due to trademark restrictions with other companies worldwide containing " National " in their name and Matsushita's desire to unify their businesses under the Panasonic name for greater recognition.

A biography of Matsushita's life called Matsushita Leadership was written by American business management specialist John Kotter in 1998.

Eventually, Matsushita's assistants left his company and he was left with only his wife and brother-in-law, Toshio Iue, who proved to be a capable salesman and manager in his own right.

One of Matsushita's best products was his invention of a more efficient battery-powered bicycle lamp.

Matsushita's backing of JVC persuaded Hitachi, Mitsubishi, and Sharp to back the VHS standard as well.

Due to its historical significance and recognition in Matsushita's native Japan, non-audiovisual Matsushita products ( mostly home appliances or white goods ) were branded " National " until September 2008.

Within several years, Matsushita's health declined rapidly and three of his older siblings died due to infectious diseases.

Matsushita's formal education ended at the age of nine.

This led to a retail store network and finally placed Matsushita's company on the map in Japan's electrical manufacturing and retail industry.

Sony brought along a Betamax prototype for Matsushita's engineers to evaluate.

As of 2005, the Quasar name has limited use in North America, either being affixed to discontinued products from the Panasonic line or more value-oriented products than Matsushita's Panasonic brand, being sold in such places such as drug stores and supermarkets.

Panasonic, via its Technics division, briefly sold a digital recorder that combined a EIAJ digital adapter with a VHS video transport, the SV-P100.

The Technics SL-10, introduced in 1981, was the first direct drive linear tracking turntable, and placed the track and arm on the underside of the dust cover, hinged in the back, to fold down over the record.

Additionally, design using the aforementioned technologies is now a key part of the Industrial Arts curriculum and has been since the mid 1980s when Technics was introduced into NSW high schools.

In 1974, Technics released the first SL-1200 turntable, which evolved into the SL-1200 MK2 in 1979 — which, as of the early-2010s, remains an industry standard for DJing.

Technics WSA1 and its rackmounted counterpart WSA1R was Technics ' first and only try at high-end synthesizers.

The first release of the record label and the first appearance of D-Mark in the music industry as well, Travelling EP, became unexpectedly a success: 10 weeks in a row at the top positions of the Technics / IDP / DMC Dutch Dance Charts and full reviews on the Spanish magazines Deejay and DJ1, that finally ended with the DJ Oner award # 1 Spanish trance release and the appearance of Project Norway in the album of Dave Pearce Delirium on the label Ministry of Sound.

The two main plots concern the fictional African state of Beninia ( a name reminiscent of the real-life Benin, though that nation in the Bight of Benin was known as the Republic of Dahomey when the book was written ) making a deal with General Technics to take over the management of their country, in a bid to speed up development from third world to first world status.

DJ Hell loved their first track " Gratin Dauphinois " on Technics and signed them to his new label, Gigolo in 1997.

In the context of cultural history, the term was first used in an academic sense by Lewis Mumford in his work, Technics and Civilization ( 1934 ) and later popularised by William McNeill.

Scott Blackwell was the first DJ to spin for the Saturday Night Dance Party, where he would mix with 4 Technics 1200ML Turntables.

In 1979 he wrote what is often identified as the first North American work on philosophy of technology, Technics and Praxis.

The first multifunctional millimeter EPR spectrometer with a superconducting solenoid was described in the early 1970s by Prof. Y. S. Lebedev's group ( Russian Institute of Chemical Physics, Moscow ) in collaboration with L. G. Oranski's group ( Ukrainian Physics and Technics Institute, Donetsk ), which began working in the Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka around 1975.

Among the first references in fiction to a monofilament is in John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar ( 1968 ), where hobby terrorists deploy this over-the-shelf General Technics product across roads to kill or injure the people passing there.

In 1978, the Technics SL-1200MK2 turntable was released, whose comfortable and precise sliding pitch control and high torque direct drive motor made beatmatching easier and it became the standard among DJs.

The Technics 1210 series also had a switch to change between voltages on the underside of the platter.

Because of this difference over the 2. 8 L model, this version was a more popular candidate for after market modification ( typically turbocharging ) from companies such as Janspeed and Turbo Technics.

Independent tuner Turbo Technics also released a turbocharged and evolution which came supplied with a specially built gearbox.

In addition, the adjustable rubber-damped feet ensure that the Technics SL-1200 series are well-insulated against acoustic feedback, which can be a serious problem when operating a turntable in close proximity to PA loudspeakers ( a common situation for DJ's ).

These studies include The Little Ševčík, an elementary violin tutor, which teaches the semitone system in 149 exercises, the School of Violin Technics ( Schule der Violintechnik, four parts, 1880 ), First Position, vol.

The main on-air studio consisted of a Gates Diplomat mixer, Technics SL-1200 turntables, Sony CD Players, and Gates NAB cartridge machines, on which the jingles and commercials were played.

WJLB's mixshow DJ crew is named The 7 Deadly Technics, which includes DJ Kim James, DJ Blast, DJ Fingers, Don Q., DJ Polo & DJ Mo Beatz.

Marrow was also able to purchase stereo equipment cheaply in Hawaii, including two Technics turntables, a mixer, and large speakers.

Technics WSA1 was launched in 1995, but the musical community did not have enough confidence in Technics to buy a $ 5000 hardware synth.

HX Pro was adopted by other manufacturers, including Technics, while Aiwa incorporated the technology into their top of the range personal stereos, as well as into their static machines.

It was later sponsored by Technics, from 1998 to 2001, Panasonic, in 2002 and 2003, and the Nationwide Building Society, from 2004 to 2008.

" Bernard Stiegler argues in his book, Technics and Time, 1, that this represents a hesitation in Derrida: " Now phusis as life was already différance.

The SL-1200 series was developed as a special project by Technics parent company Matsushita in an attempt to solve many of the problems related to the difficult task of turntable design.

The Technics supplied 80W four speaker cassette tape stereo offered four user programmable equalizer settings, and was equipped with a dual diversity antenna, meaning it had a conventional extendable power antenna and an embedded antenna in the rear window.

The other was Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization – if I read it again now I do not know what I would think of it, but certainly that was a starting point for my interest in looking at history in technological terms rather than in the constitutional / political terms prevalent at Oxford ".

On 5 May 2006, a Hellas Jet Airbus A320 was destroyed in a fire in the Sabena Technics hangar at Brussels Airport in Belgium.

William Mong Man-wai GBS (, 7 November 1927 – 20 July 2010 ) was the chairman of the Shun Hing Group, the distributor of Matsushita products ( National, Panasonic, Technics ) in Hong Kong.