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Edna MacLean, HP's first women engineer, working alongside a colleague.
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Edna MacLean: HP’s First Female Engineer
In 1953, Edna MacLean became Hewlett-Packard’s first female engineer after she graduated from Stanford University. MacLean had been working for HP as a part-time lab technician in R&D while she comple ...
The Dymec nuclear systems console, photographed in 1956.
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Going Nuclear: HP and Nuclear Research
Few pursuits demanded accuracy and precision like measuring radioactivity. Hewlett-Packard entered the market for nuclear research instruments in the late 1940s, and many of the company’s products, in ...
Photo of the DY-2500 Computing Digital Indicator (front view).
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How Dynac/Dymec Led HP to Computers
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 ...
A man and woman working together in 1956.
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Women and Men Working Together
Women and men employees worked closely together across department lines throughout the 1950s. In 1956, for example, the women of the Pre-Fab Department stepped in to help the Machine Shop’s Waveguide ...