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| Toyota's origin goes back to a power loom Sakichi Toyoda invented with lifelong enthusiasm. Along with it, profiles of Sakichi and his son Kiichiro, and their developments from spinning & weaving machinery to automobiles are introduced here. |
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Left : "Toyoda Power Loom made of wood and iron" (1896) |
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Right : "Non-Stop Shuttle Change Toyoda Automatic Loom, Type G" (1924) |
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| 1867 - 1930 |
| Born at a time when the nation was solely engaged in modernization, Sakichi at age 18 pledged to devote himself to invention to help build a better nation. Overcoming numerous
difficulties, he succeeded in inventing the Toyoda Automatic Loom, a technological
breakthrough that lifted Japanese technology
to the level of the Western world. |
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| 1894 - 1952 |
| "My father was a loom man; I'm an automobile man". This thinking led Kiichiro to go into the auto industry, a field considered too venturesome at the time. Despite unfavorable
circumstances, he founded Toyota Motor Co.,Ltd. and thereby laid a solid foundation
for the present Toyota Group. |
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