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The Nakamichi Dragon is an audio cassette deck that was introduced by Nakamichi in 1982 and marketed until 1994. The Dragon was the first Nakamichi model with bidirectional [a] replay capability and the world's first production tape recorder with an automatic azimuth correction system; this feature, which was invented by Philips engineers and improved by Niro Nakamichi, continuously adjusts ...
Nakamichi is a subsidiary of Chinese holding company Nimble Holdings. [1] Nakamichi manufactured electronic devices from its founding in 1948 but only began selling them under its name from 1972. It is credited with offering the world's first three-head cassette deck. [2]
After Etsuro Nakamichi founded Nakamichi, his brother Niro joined and the two brothers worked to develop the company.In 2001, Nirō Nakamichi (中道仁郎, Nakamichi Nirō), designer of many of the historic tape decks, started a new company, Mechanical Research Corporation, which introduced ultra high end audio amplifiers, preamplifiers, and an integrated amplifier, called "engines".
Today the building acts as a post office on the ground floor, and as a museum on the upper floor. Outside, there is an exhibit of old steam engines. Most of the businesses in Pettah are dominated by Muslim who specialize in trading of goods and the Tamil people who have migrated from India traders who specialize in gold and jewelry shops.
Vogue Jewellers was established in 1962 by Sarath Hemachandra. [3] During the 1960s, radio jingle "Mangala mudu mala valalu" penned by lyricist Karunaratne Abeysekera, was specifically created for Vogue Jewellers and it became one of the first few jingles to have been used in Sri Lanka. [2]
Several types of coins categorised as Sethu bull coins are found in large quantities in the northern part of Sri Lanka. Three types of this series are illustrated below. The obverse of these coins have a human figure flanked by lamps and the reverse has the Nandi (bull) symbol, the legend Sethu in Tamil with a crescent moon above.
Even today Kandyan jewellery sets are auctioned off at the best auction houses in the United Kingdom and Europe with a throatlet and necklaces being valued at £5000 to £8000 and the entire sets being sold for prices ranging from £50,000 to £200,000 depending on the design and antiquity of the sets. In Sri Lanka these sets are available on a ...
(68 ft) [1] 8 Buddha Statue in Athugala Vihara Lord Buddha: Kurunegala, Kurunegala District: 2007 20.1 m (66 ft) [1] 9 Golden Buddha Statue in Dambulla Vihara: Lord Buddha: Dambulla, Matale District: 2001 19.8 m (65 ft) [1] 10 Buddha Statue in Navakada Vihara Lord Buddha: Udubaddawa, Kurunegala District: 2010 17.1 m (56 ft) [4] 11 Buddha Statue ...