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 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’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. ...

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 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 ...

Hewlett-Packard voltmeters would become one of the longstanding, reliable products offered by the company in the postwar period. The 400A model was engineered for “dependability and uniformity of accu ...

Hewlett-Packard first became involved with microwave technology during World War II. In the two decades after the war, the company would be the world’s leading producer of microwave signal generators. ...

Billie Howard and Marge Norman were part of the stockroom workforce during the war years. Women joined the Hewlett-Packard employee ranks en masse during this period, ultimately building long careers ...

Early on, the company pioneered a “pass on” type of assembly line to maximize efficiency for war production. The new system would remain in place from that point forward.

Bill and Dave were great believers in responsible corporate citizenship. Their company’s first recorded donation came in just its second year of operation, $5 recorded as “Misc. – Contribution.” It wa ...