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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 ...
Photo of the Autograf, one of FL Moseley's flagship products (with cover).
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Getting an Autograf
Hewlett-Packard’s first foray into printing — and the company’s first acquisition — was FL Moseley Company of California, which became the Moseley division of Hewlett-Packard. (Fittingly, FL Moseley C ...
Dave Packard chatting and shaking hands with a female employee at HP.
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Greeting Employees: A Dialogue with Dave
Bill and Dave were big proponents of personally meeting with employees of all levels. By the 1960s, the founders greeted even more women during their rounds. Female employees continued to hold roles a ...
Dave Packard seated next to former US President Herbert Hoover in 1960.
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Hanging Out with Hoover: Visits to HP HQ
Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover visited Hewlett-Packard’s Palo Alto headquarters on July 2, 1960. As a Stanford-educated engineer, successful businessman and noted humanitarian, he would have muc ...
Technicians from the Dynac Division working on the DY-2500 Computing Digital Indicator.
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Hewlett-Packard Creates Dynac
In 1956, Hewlett-Packard created Dynac — renamed Dymec in 1958 — to work on systems in which multiple products were combined to carry out a specific purpose, such as radar simulators for missile devel ...