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A group of six women celebrating Hewlett-Packard's 15th anniversary.
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15th Anniversary: Women Established at HP
By the time these women participated in Hewlett-Packard’s 15th anniversary celebrations in 1954, women were an established presence throughout the company’s workforce, which at that point consisted of ...
A photo of women employees in the Pre-Fab section of Building 1 at Palo Alto.
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A Pre-Fabulous Team
The female employees of the Pre-Fab section of Building 1 at Palo Alto were a close-knit group even by Hewlett-Packard standards. Company publications documented frequent celebrations for birthdays, f ...
A group of HP employees including Yas Shimoguchi (left foreground), reportedly the first Japanese American ever hired by HP.
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A Real Team Player: Yas Shimoguchi
Yas Shimoguchi (left foreground) was reportedly the first Japanese American ever hired by Hewlett-Packard Company, but his legacy at the company goes far deeper than that. Yas joined HP in 1951, worki ...
Bill and Dave chatting with Noel Porter and others in 1955.
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A Team Emerges at Stanford
Bill and Dave met for the first time at Stanford’s freshman football tryouts, but they became close as upperclassmen, through a mutual friend and future vice president at Hewlett-Packard, Noel “Ed” Po ...
A team of architects and engineers studying blueprints on the grounds of the HP campus at Stanford Industrial Park.
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A Walk in the Park: New HQ
A team of architects and engineers studied blueprints on the site of the new Hewlett-Packard Stanford Industrial Park (later renamed Stanford Research Park) at 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto. The comp ...
The cover of Watt's Current from January 1957 featuring men and women in the Wiring & Assembly section working side-by-side.
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A Wide Scope: HP 150A Oscilloscope
Women and men in the Wiring and Assembly section worked side by side in crafting 150A oscilloscopes. Hewlett-Packard encouraged all groups to work together while fostering a cohesive and friendly envi ...
Photo of a billboard indicating 34 new instruments featured by HP on 3rd floor of the IRE in 1957.
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An Intro at IRE
In 1938, before Bill and Dave had even formalized their partnership, Bill took a prototype of their first product to a conference of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE, later the IEEE). In 1957, He ...
A woman assembling a Hewlett-Packard oscillator in the 1950s or 1960s.
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Booming Production
Bill and Dave assembled Hewlett-Packard’s first oscillators themselves. By the mid-twentieth century the company had thousands of employees, including this woman, who assembled one of the company’s up ...
Photo of Moseley Division employees in the HP breakroom in 1958.
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Breakroom Buddies: Moseley Joins HP
The Moseley Division came to Hewlett-Packard Company as an acquisition, but Moseley employees clearly had no problem exhibiting Hewlett-Packard’s sense of workplace comaraderie.
Exterior photo of the Hewlett-Packard manufacturing plant in Boblingen, Germany, in 1959.
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Built in Böblingen: HP’s Manufacturing
Hewlett-Packard Company established its first manufacturing plant outside Palo Alto in this former knitting factory in Böblingen, Germany, in 1959.