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Cover of Watt's Current from November 1962 featuring a woman working on a cathode ray tube.
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Constructing a Cathode-Ray Tube
Workers assembled cathode-ray tube electron guns required for the 175A oscilloscope. By the early 1960s, the HP Tube Lab produced virtually all CRTs used in Hewlett-Packard oscilloscopes. Women were a ...
Production line for oscilloscopes at Hewlett-Packard's Colorado Springs facility in 1963.
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Cooperation: HP’s Colorado Springs Facility
Dedicated in 1963, Hewlett-Packard’s Colorado Springs facility was home to production for the company’s thriving oscilloscope business.
A group of HP employees have cake and coffee in a cubicle in 1964.
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Cubicles Don’t Change HP Collegiality
By the 1960s, cubicles had caught on for administrative personnel, but they didn’t change the collegiality that characterized Hewlett-Packard workspaces.
A display showcasing the instruments from the Sanborn Division of Hewlett-Packard in 1967.
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Doctor’s Orders: HP Acquires Sanborn
Hewlett-Packard entered the field for medical electronics with the acquisition of the Sanborn Company of Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1961. Sanborn continued as a distinct division within Hewlett-Packar ...
Photo of F.L. Moseley Company's production line.
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Easily Conveyed: Moseley Production
Production employees went to work on the conveyor line at the Moseley division facility. The division was Hewlett-Packard’s first foray into the printing and imaging industry, following Hewlett-Packar ...
A letter from Dave Packard outlining the need for diversity and inclusion.
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Equal Opportunity Focus at HP
The 1960s brought a new scrutiny to race and inequality in the United States. Dave Packard explained to managers what this climate meant for Hewlett-Packard Company, an organization that always abhorr ...
A photo of Ercil Joseph calibrating Hewlett-Packard's 608 signal generator.
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Ercil Joseph Breaks Calibrating Record
In 1962, associate Ercil Joseph earned recognition when she set the calibrating record for Hewlett-Packard’s 608 signal generator, calibrating 24 units in a single day. Women like Joseph were welcomed ...
Employees moving the HP 8400A microwave spectrometer in 1964.
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Fingerprinting: HP 8400A Spectrometer
HP’s 8400A microwave spectrometer could help scientists determine the molecular structure of a substance by using microwaves to trace that substance’s “fingerprint.” Before its advent, scientists had ...
Photo of Bill and Flora Hewlett taken in 1960.
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Flora Hewlett: Bill’s Better Half
Bill Hewlett married Flora Lamson in 1939, Hewlett-Packard’s first year of operation. When she and Bill began dating, Flora’s friends worried that Bill’s dream of starting his own business would jeopa ...
Dave Packard shakes hands with an unnamed Japanese official during the formation of Yokogawa Hewlett-Packard.
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Founding Hewlett-Packard Japan
Hewlett-Packard entered Japan with the formation of a joint-venture company — Hewlett-Packard’s first — named Yokogawa Hewlett-Packard. Hewlett-Packard was about a decade ahead of most American tech c ...