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HORIBA Radio Laboratory was started as a business in October 1945 by Masao Horiba (now Supreme Council) as the first-ever student venture company in Japan. Later, in 1953, the company was incorporated as HORIBA, Ltd. The first product of HORIBA, Ltd. was a pH meter, a device for measuring the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. Today, the pH meter is one of the company’s major products.
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Horiba, A. (2013). HORIBA, Ltd.. In: Giga, Y., Kobayashi, T. (eds) What Mathematics Can Do for You. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54346-6_6
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