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Hewlett-Packard or HP
Two Stanford graduates, a garage, and Mickey Mouse all played a role in the formation of what is now one of the world’s leading computer companies.
In 1938, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, friends and electrical engineering students at Stanford University, rented a house in Palo Alto, California, to start their company. While Packard and his wife lived in the house and Hewlett slept in a shed in the yard, the two used the garage as their main workshop and even used the kitchen stove as a paint-baking station for their prototypes. Some of their early inventions included a device for aligning telescopes, a harmonica tuner, a lane marker for local bowling alleys, and an electric eye for automatic toilet flushing. The resistor-tuned audio oscillator (Model 200A) was their first major success, offering a practical and inexpensive way to produce high-quality frequencies. 1 reply
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