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A photo from 1946 featuring nine female HP employees at work.
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A Diversifying Workforce: HP’s Growth
Wartime production demands led Hewlett-Packard’s workforce to grow from 3 employees in 1940 to around 200 by 1945. The combination of a national labor shortage and the company’s nondiscriminatory hiri ...
Cover of Watt's Current from March 8, 1946 featuring a production line of mostly women.
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A Riveting Job: Wartime Women at HP
Wartime production brought more employees into the fold, especially women and retirees. “Rosie the Riveters” were a common sight on Hewlett-Packard assembly lines in the mid- to late-1940s. ...
A photo of Digital Equipment Corporation's TYPESET-8, a turnkey computer system from 1968.
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At Attention: HP Attenuator Department
A group of employees were busy at work in the Attenuator Department, which in 1946 was made up mostly of women. Workers constructed attenuators — a small current-regulating device — and performed othe ...
Photo of the Q-Meter used by a Rutgers University professor to study Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
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Buying Boonton: An HP Acquisition
Hewlett-Packard acquired the Boonton Radio Corporation in 1959. The company made high-end precision instruments for electronics testing. The company’s oldest instrument was the Q-Meter, first introduc ...
Watt's Current cover from April 12, 1946 featuring Caroline Kusske at work.
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Caroline Kusske: A Winding Wiz
Caroline Kusske soldered a connection on a 400A range switch, a winding machine built in the company shops. Kusske retired in 1960 after more than 16 years at Hewlett-Packard Company. “Caroline helped ...
A photo of Willard Jones, HP's earliest-known Black employee, with the rest of the HP softball team in 1946.
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Diversity at Play: Willard Jones
HP’s extracurricular activities helped to fuel a general atmosphere of diversity and inclusion at the company. Willard Jones, the company’ earliest-known Black employee, was a member of the company’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...