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Watching Paint Dry: Paint Conveyor at HP

Photo of the paint conveyer used to help dry freshly painted instruments in 1957. Enlarge
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Date: 1957

By 1957, Hewlett-Packard had devised a paint conveyer to facilitate the swift drying of freshly painted instruments. It was a far cry from the company’s early days on Addison Avenue, when the paint for the instrument housings had been baked dry in the Packards’ oven.

Tags: 1950s • 1957 • facility • Manufacturing

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