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HP Takes the Hardwood
In the winter of 1944, Hewlett-Packard fielded its first sports team, a basketball squad. In its augural season, the HP team played only one opponent, the Fisher Research Lab, and lost all three games ...
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 ...
A large group of Hewlett-Packard employees at a company party.
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In Style: HP Parties & Events
Parties and events were a regular occurrence at Hewlett-Packard. In its early decades, the company was still small enough to bring together all its employees for picnics, holidays and similar occasion ...
Bill Hewlett with a number of female employees during a visit to HP in 1944 when he was a major in the Army.
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Major Hewlett Pays a Visit to HP
Bill visited Dave at Hewlett-Packard as often as he could while serving in the Army. Bill was a major when this picture was taken, but was a lieutenant colonel by the time of his discharge in 1945.
Bill Hewlett working with an audio signal generator.
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Making Noise: HP Audio Signal Generator
Bill Hewlett’s fascination with radio and AV equipment led to Hewlett-Packard’s first product and its early focus on instruments. Here Bill continued this fascination with an audio signal generator. ...
The front face of the HP 300A harmonic wave analyzer.
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Making Waves in the Industry: HP 300A
Among Hewlett-Packard’s first products after the 200 series oscillator, the 300A harmonic wave analyzer was a highly sophisticated instrument suitable for both laboratory and production work. It could ...
Dave and Lucile Packard dancing at a company party.
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Married to the Business: Lucile Salter
Dave Packard married Lucile “Lu” Salter in 1938, shortly before the launch of Hewlett-Packard Company. Though her name didn’t appear on Hewlett-Packard Company’s employee rolls, Lucile Packard was cri ...