The war brought Hewlett-Packard into its first work on microwave technology through the Leopard project, a top secret program to disrupt enemy radar and protect Allied ships. The demands of the projec ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard’s rapid growth and unique company culture meant that employees who embraced the company ethos could go far. The young engineer on the far right watching a microwave product test is Joh ...

The 8551 was Hewlett-Packard’s first microwave spectrum analyzer. It was capable of measurements in ranges far beyond anything else available at the time. It expanded the market fivefold and became th ...

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. ...

It took a great deal of equipment to make instruments so reliable and accurate that other companies used them to calibrate their own devices. This microwave spectroscopy gear belonged to Hewlett-Packa ...

World War II had brought Hewlett-Packard into its first involvement in radar and microwave technologies. After the war, and continuing for more than two decades, Hewlett-Packard would be an industry l ...