Net sales amounted to $287,256.
-galvin Manufacturing Company produced the first practical and cheap car radio. At that time, the car manufacturer did not provide car radios. Therefore, galvin car radios are sold and installed by independent car dealers and retailers. Paul Galvin named the new product Motorola, which means car and radio.
-The company produces an AM car radio called the police patrol car. The radio was preset to a frequency to receive the police broadcast. This is the first time Motorola has entered a new field of wireless communication.
-Motorola's headquarters and factory moved to a modern building at 4545 West Augusta Street in Chicago.
-Motorola announced the production of a new series of home radios. At that time, more than half of American families owned radios. Motorola's goal is to provide radios for the other half of the family. The car radio produced by this company uses keys for tuning, fine tuning and tone control for the first time.
-Motorola's first service club honors all employees who have served for 10 years, and established a senior workers' club. The company launched a nationwide advertising campaign, including printing and distributing advertising materials and erecting roadside billboards and other billboards.
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1940
Net sales: $9936558
Number of employees: 985
-Daniel Noble (1902- 1980), a pioneer of FM wireless communication and semiconductor technology, joined Motorola and took charge of research. The Ministry of Communications has also been established. 194 1 year, a company responsible for sales-Motorola Communication Electronics Company was formally established.
-Motorola developed the first hand-held two-way walkie-talkie for the US Army Signal Corps. This portable two-way AM walkie-talkie later became a symbol of World War II.
Motorola installed the first complete AM two-way police wireless communication system in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Motorola took the lead in commercializing two-way FM wireless communication products. This product has long range and low noise, and has advantages over AM equipment.
Daniel Noble of Motorola designed the first portable FM two-way radio-a backpack walkman. Together with portable AM walkie-talkie, this kind of walkie-talkie became the most important battlefield communication equipment during World War II.
-the company's initial public offering of shares. The price per share is $8.50.
As Motorola's registered trademark has gained a high reputation, galvin Manufacturing Company changed its name to Motorola. The company has also set up a fund for employees' savings and profits.
-Motorola started to enter the TV production industry. Its VT7 1 Golden TV set costs 179 USD, which is the first TV set with a price below 200 USD. Within a year, the sales volume of this TV set exceeded100000, making Motorola the fourth largest TV set manufacturer.
-Motorola provides car radios to Ford and Chrysler for installation in car factories. The Motorola car radio factory in Quincy, Illinois is its first factory outside Chicago.
-The company's push-button automatic gasoline heater is out of order. Paul Galvin announced: "Motorola will only engage in the electronics industry in the future."
Bidirectional FM wireless dispatching equipment enables industrial and commercial users to play the role of wireless frequency. Strong sales promotion and reliable equipment make Motorola a leader in this fast-growing industry.
-Daniel Noble set up a research and development center in Phoenix, Arizona to explore the great potential of newly invented transistors.
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1950
Net sales: 65,438+077,65,438+004.669 USD.
Total number of employees: 9,325
-The semiconductor development department began to produce three-amp power transistors. By 1955, the Ministry has produced germanium transistors for car radios, and at the same time, some factories have been established for mass production of RF transistors and silicon rectifiers.
A new wireless communication product, a small wireless receiver called pager, has been developed, which can send radio information to designated people. Many hospitals became the first users of Motorola pagers. This pager replaced the original broadcasting system.
Motorola is the first country to apply transistors to commercial car radios, making them smaller, more durable and more energy-saving.
Motorola has become a commercial manufacturer of various manufacturers and a supplier of semiconductor devices. The headquarters of semiconductor products was formally established.
-Paul Calvin was elected as the chairman, and he and his son Robert galvin were elected as the president of Motorola and became the CEO of the company.
-Motorola introduced the first two-way mobile radio station with all-transistor power supply and receiver, named Motorola. Because of its low power consumption, it can work when the car engine is off. Although the motorcycle radio is twice as expensive as the old one, it is still the best-selling product.
-Motorola introduced the first X 1 1 transistor radio, which is compact and can be put into a shirt pocket.
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1960
Net sales: USD 299,065,922.
Total number of employees: 14.740.
-The company has developed the technology of producing silicon rectifiers at low cost. This rectifier can be used for automobile alternator, and it is an economical substitute for less durable DC generator. Motorola Automotive Products Department, known as the supplier of electronic products under the hood, was also formally established.
-Motorola introduced the all-transistor HT-200 portable FM two-way walkie-talkie. This machine weighs only 936 grams and is nicknamed "brick" because of its appearance and solid structure.
Mariner II, flying to Venus, carries a Motorola transponder, providing radio communication as far as 87 million kilometers. 1964, mariner 4 used similar equipment to send images of mars back to earth. Motorola also provides similar equipment for Gemini manned spacecraft.
Motorola cooperated with the national film and television company to develop the first rectangular picture tube for color TV sets. CRT soon became the industry standard.
-Motorola Automotive Products Department cooperated with Ford and American Radio Company to design and manufacture the first eight-channel tape player for car. These players soon became the main products after car radios.
-Motorola to AT & amp； T company provides a transistor "paging boy" wireless pager, also known as "bell boy". The company is also in&; T provide user equipment and systems needed by the growing mobile radiotelephone market.
With the decline of semiconductor production cost and the expansion of its application in mass electronic products, it has formed a huge market. In order to meet the market demand, Motorola has produced a series of low-priced transistors in plastic packages. This design has been adopted by the whole semiconductor industry.
-Motorola added a circle to its logo.
The new Quasar TV set is the first full transistor color TV set produced in the United States.
-Motorola has expanded its business in many overseas countries and regions, including Australia, France, West Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Taiwan Province Province and the United Kingdom. Establish a factory. Joint ventures for the production of automotive electronics and other products have also been established in Italy and Japan.
Astronaut neil armstrong's first words on the moon were transmitted back to Earth through a transponder designed and manufactured by Motorola's government electronics department.
-Motorola's new portable FM two-way walkie-talkie is only half the size and weight of the old one. HT-220 walkie-talkie only uses two specially designed integrated circuits to replace fifty-one discrete transistors.
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1970
Net sales: USD 796,465,438+USD 08,565,438+USD 02.
Total number of employees: 36,000
American lunar rover uses Motorola FM wireless receiver to provide voice communication between the moon and the earth, which is 386 thousand kilometers away. The sensitivity of this receiver is 100 times higher than that of ordinary car radios. But only 0.68 1 kg.
-Motorola introduced the first MC6800 microprocessor. Early customers came from automobiles, communications, industrial and commercial machines.
-The company sold its home TV factory, including the famous Quasar trademark, to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. ..
Viking 2 sent clear color photos of the surface of Mars back to Earth through Motorola equipment.
-Motorola's new international headquarters in Schumberg, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois was completed, covering an area of1300,000 square meters.
-A wireless telephone experimental system developed by Motorola called "cellular" system was tested on the spot. The system is called "cellular" because it has many base stations with small coverage.
Motorola introduced computer-controlled wireless communication system and related products. The system adopts clustering method, which enables operators to use crowded wireless frequencies more effectively.
-Motorola introduced the first 16-bit microprocessor MC 68000. This processor can perform 2 million calculations per second, and can be used for scientific calculation, data processing and other commercial applications.
-The company checks product quality and company operation. By the mid-1980s, the company had fully implemented Six Sigma Total Quality Management.
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1980
Net sales: 3098763000 dollars.
Total number of employees: 7 1 0,500
The photos of Saturn taken by Voyager 1 were sent back to Earth after1600 million kilometers. The main equipment for communication with the earth carried by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is made by Motorola.
Electronic components required by the automobile industry have become the largest market for Motorola microprocessors. Motorola has provided a large number of electronic engine control modules to Ford, GM and Chrysler to improve fuel efficiency and reduce exhaust emissions.
After years of development, the company's first DynaTAC cellular radiotelephone system was put into commercial operation.
The total number of users of Motorola pagers in Japan is 200,000.
Motorola made the first real 32-bit microprocessor MC68020, which contains 200,000 transistors. The addressable range of memory is as high as 4 billion bytes. At the same time, the company also introduced MC68HC 1 1 microcontroller.
Motorola has signed contracts with new york, Philadelphia, Beijing and Hongkong to provide mobile phone systems, and signed expansion contracts with Britain, Scandinavia and Japan. Motorola's cellular systems division and computer systems division merged into General Systems Group. Motorola has invested more than 40 million dollars in employee training. The training and education department (MTEC) of the whole company is located in the newly-built galvin Center, providing continuous on-the-job training for employees. 1990, MTEC University was renamed Motorola University.
-Motorola stopped producing car radios. New automotive electronic products include automobile and truck instruments and engine transmission control module.
Motorola won the first Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, which was awarded by the US Congress to recognize and encourage American enterprises with the best quality.
-Motorola's MicroTAC personal mobile phone was the smallest and lightest mobile phone on the market at that time.
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1990
Net sales: $65,438.
Total number of employees: 105.000.
Motorola's government electronics department provided radio equipment for the missions of Galileo, Magellan and Hubble Space Telescopes.
-We started to develop a cellular communication system, which can cover anywhere on the earth. This system, called Iridium System, consists of many satellites operating in near-earth orbit.
The newly-built Motorola Electronic Museum shows the development history of Motorola and the electronic industry in various eras.
PowerPC is a powerful microprocessor jointly developed by Apple Computer Company, IBM Company and Motorola Company. It uses RISC computer technology to improve the processing speed.
The annual demand for Motorola pagers in China is close to 4 million. The company not only produces pagers in Europe and the United States, but also in China, Indian, Japanese, Singaporean and Korean.
-Motorola's paging department, wireless data department and information system department are merged into MIMS. The new business department will develop technologies related to non-voice wireless communication and multimedia products, and explore related markets.
Motorola has 33,000 employees in the Asia-Pacific region.
-Motorola launched "Integrated Dispatching Enhanced Network (iDEN)". The system integrates wireless scheduling, data transmission and communication technology.
-Motorola StarTAC mobile phone is the smallest and lightest of its kind in the world, so it can be carried around.
Motorola announced that it plans to develop a satellite network called M-Star to transmit voice, video signals and high-speed data around the world.
-Motorola's Forte data radio station won the best industrial design award in the communication equipment category, which has handwriting recognition software and two-way communication function.
Montana and Marina modem cards for portable computers are the best-selling products. They are fast and can be used with Motorola's mobile phones.
-Christopher galvin, grandson of Motorola founder paul Galvin, CEO of Motorola.
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