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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.
Dave Packard, Lucile Packard and Dick Arms serve a line of HP employees at the 1945 company picnic.
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HP Tradition: Annual Company Picnic
Dave Packard, Lucile Packard and Dick Arms served food to employees and their families at the 1945 company picnic. The outing was an annual event at Hewlett-Packard by 1942, the company’s third year o ...
Dave Packard accepting the Army-Navy E Award on November 20, 1943.
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HP’s Excellence in Wartime Production
Hewlett-Packard received the coveted Army-Navy “E” Award for excellence in wartime production four times for its work during World War II. Dave Packard accepted the first award on behalf of the compan ...
Photo of Art Fong, the earliest known Asian-American engineer to work for a Silicon Valley tech company.
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HP’s First Asian-American Engineer
Hewlett-Packard operated on a policy of nondiscrimination from the very beginning, which was almost unheard of when the company was founded in 1939. The company’s decision would help set a tone for et ...
Photo of Helen Perry at work (typing with headset on) with Dave Packard working in the background.
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HP’s First Female Employee
By 1940, Hewlett-Packard had gotten large enough to hire a full-time administrative assistant named Helen Perry. Perry, seen here with Dave Packard, was Hewlett-Packard’s first female employee. (Befor ...