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Encouraging Recreation
Volleyball was one of the many sports employees participated in during company picnics. This match took place at the Adobe Creek Lodge in Los Alto Hills, California. Picnics in the 1940s regularly inc ...
The HP 320 AR distortion analyzer.
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Expanding the Catalog: HP 320AR
Building on the success of Hewlett-Packard’s oscillator line, the 320AR distortion analyzer offered a simple and convenient instrument for studying and measuring the harmonic distortion in audio frequ ...
Lucile Packard and Flora and Bill Hewlett at a social event in 1946.
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Flora Hewlett’s Role In HP Growth
Like Lu Packard (left), Flora Hewlett (center) played an informal but pivotal role in HP’s success. A Berkeley-educated biochemist, her work as an editor for the Annual Review of Biochemistry provided ...
Gladys Anenson on the cover of the Watt's Current newsletter.
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Gladys Anenson: HP’s First Female Machinist
Gladys Anenson was Hewlett-Packard Company’s first female machinist and department supervisor. She arrived at the company in 1943, starting with a brief stint assembling small parts. Impressed by her ...
Photo of Harvey Zieber, Hewlett-Packard's first employee, with a welding helmet and blow torch.
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Harvey Zieber: HP’s First Employee
Harvey Zieber began working as an assistant to Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in the Addison Avenue garage, making him Hewlett-Packard’s first employee. He was also the only Hewlett-Packard employee be ...
Cover of Watt's Current from April 26, 1946 featuring Helen Culver on the cover seated at a typewriter.
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Helen Vogue: Receptionist & Columnist
Women at Hewlett-Packard Company in the 1940s worked in all sorts of positions, from administration to production, and found outlets for their talents within the company culture as well as in executin ...
A cinder block building with a sign reading Hewlett-Packard Co. Electrical Engineering & Manufacturing.
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Hewlett-Packard’s First Commercial Facility
In 1940, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard moved to their first manufacturing facility outside of the Addison Avenue garage. The new facility was located behind a repair shop owned by John “Tinker” Bell. ...
A document from the United States Patent Office outlining the trademark for HP's first logo.
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Hewlett-Packard’s First Logo
Hewlett-Packard’s first logo, introduced in 1941 and trademarked in 1942, was the beginning of a company icon. The logo would be modified many times in the ensuing years, but the lower-case italic “hp ...
Hewlett-Packard's first patent, for Bill Hewlett's oscillator, granted on January 6, 1942.
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Hewlett-Packard’s First Patent
Hewlett-Packard filed for its first product patent — on Bill Hewlett’s oscillator model — in 1939. It was granted on January 6, 1942.
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Hometown Softball Heroes
Hewlett-Packard sponsored its first softball team, the HP Aggies, in 1945. Just two years later, the team won its first league division championship with a 22-2 record. Hewlett-Packard was part of a d ...