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Date: 1939

During the company’s first year of operations, Bill and Dave’s former classmate Noel “Ed” Porter worked for a local air conditioning company and farmed out work to the young Hewlett-Packard Company designing instrument panels. Porter shared authorial credit on many of the products that came from these designs. He would later become a vice president at Hewlett-Packard.

Tags: 1930s • 1939 • Bill Hewlett • Dave Packard • Noel Ed Porter

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