Bill and Dave tried their hands at multiple projects while they were searching for their young company’s market niche. Among the devices they pursued were an automatic toilet flusher, an electric weig ...

Bill Hewlett spent most of the war in the Army Aviation Ordnance department, an area where his engineering skill could be put to use. In 1945, however, he was part of a small team that travelled to Ja ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just six years after Hewlett-Packard began in a garage, Dave Packard was addressing a good-sized crowd at the company’s annual Christmas party. Hewlett-Packard had around 200 employees by this point. ...

Company celebrations were a common occurrence at Hewlett-Packard by the mid-twentieth century. Both company celebrations and informal employee events exhibited a certain flair in their execution.

Sports and recreation were important aspects of the annual Hewlett-Packard picnic, which began in 1942. Even Bill Hewlett got into the swing of things by participating in a baseball game that inaugura ...

Basketball became Hewlett-Packard’s first sponsored sports team in winter 1944. It was probably an easy decision, given Dave Packard’s background. Packard not only participated in basketball (plus foo ...

The 205A, seen here being tested by Dave Packard, was higher power than the company’s original 200A oscillator. With the demand for radio equipment soon to come from World War II, it was perhaps Hewle ...

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 ...