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The company was founded by Kibataro Oki (1848–1906), an engineer formerly employed at a Kobusho (Ministry of Industry) factory. In 1877, only a year after Alexander Graham Bell's invention, Kubusho had started an effort to make telephone receivers by reverse engineering and Oki was in the team that came up with the first prototype. [5]
OKI (company), an electronics and printer manufacturer (Oki Data) Super Oki, the limited express train which runs in San'in Main Line and Yamaguchi Line of West Japan Railway; Oki, the original name of Sheriff Callie on Sheriff Callie's Wild West back when it was going to be called "Oki's Oasis" Oki, a doll in the Groovy Girls doll line
The Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) is a council of governments in the Cincinnati metropolitan area.It also serves as the region's federally mandated metropolitan planning organization, serving Butler, Clermont, Hamilton and Warren Counties in Ohio; Boone, Campbell and Kenton Counties in Kentucky; and Dearborn County in Indiana.
The tsunami in Ukai Horyumachi reached up to 5.45 m (17.9 ft) and almost every building in the town within a block of the coast was swept away or damaged beyond repair. [116] The combined effects of the earthquake and tsunami damaged or destroyed 90 percent of the town's buildings. [ 125 ]
In 1925, Rudolf Hell invented the Hellschreiber, an early facsimile-like dot matrix–based teletypewriter device, [6] patented in 1929. Between 1952 and 1954 Fritz Karl Preikschat filed five patent applications [7] [8] for his so-called "PKT printer", [6] a dot matrix teletypewriter built between 1954 and 1956 in Germany.
The Oki Islands (隠岐諸島, Oki-shotō, or 隠岐の島 Oki-no-shima, 隠岐群島 Oki-guntō) is an archipelago in the Sea of Japan, the islands of which are administratively part of Oki District, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. The islands have a total area of 346.1 square kilometres (133.6 sq mi).
On Tuesday, 15 March, news of rising radiation levels caused the Nikkei to drop over 1,000 points or 10.6% (16% for the week). [51] Other stock markets around the world were also affected; the German DAX lost 1.2% within minutes. [52] Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell by 1.8%, while South Korea's Kospi index slumped by 1.3%. [53]