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The group expanded rapidly, driven by a combination of organic growth and by acquisitions, buying heavy engineering, and primary industry firms in the 1940s and 1950s. Groups created include [[EMI Music Japan|Toshiba Music Industries/Toshiba EMI]] (1960), Toshiba International Corporation (the 1970s) Toshiba Electrical Equipment (1974), Toshiba Chemical (1974), Toshiba Lighting and Technology (1989), Toshiba America Information Systems (1989) and Toshiba Carrier Corporation (1999).
Toshiba is responsible for a number of Japanese firsts, including radar (1912){{Citation needed|reason=1912 is earlier than both Toshiba and Japan claim to have developed radar, should this be 1942?|date=May 2022}}, the TAC digital computer (1954), transistor television, color CRTs<ref>{{Cite web |title=Toshiba : Press Releases 21 December, 1995 |url=https://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/1995_12/pr2101.htm |website=www.toshiba.co.jp}}</ref> and microwave oven (1959), [[videophone|color video phone]] (1971), Japanese [[word processor]] (1978), MRI system (1982), personal computer [[Toshiba Pasopia|Pasopia]] (1981), laptop personal computer (1986), NAND EEPROM (1991), DVD (1995), the [[Libretto (notebook)|Libretto]] sub-notebook personal computer (1996) and [[HD DVD]] (2005).
In 1977, Toshiba acquired the Brazilian company Semp (Sociedade Eletromercantil Paulista), subsequently forming Semp Toshiba through the combination of the two companies' South American operations.
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