Hewlett-Packard was founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, two Stanford University graduates who began working in a garage in Palo Alto, California, a site now often called the birthplace of Silicon Valley. Their first product was an audio oscillator, and an early big customer was Walt Disney Studios, which bought several for the film Fantasia. The company grew into a major maker of test and measurement equipment, calculators, printers and computers, and became known for a management style called the HP Way. In 2015 it divided into two companies, HP Inc. for personal computers and printers and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for servers and services.
Before and after
- 14 April 1939Publication of The Grapes of Wrath
- 19 April 1939Birth of Ali Khamenei
- from 11 May 1939 to 16 September 1939Battles of Khalkhin Gol
- 22 May 1939Pact of Steel
- 2 July 1939Founding of Hewlett-Packard
- 9 August 1939Birth of Romano Prodi
- 23 August 1939Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
- 31 August 1939Gleiwitz incident
- from 1 September 1939 to 6 October 19391939 Invasion of Poland
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- 11 December 1931Founding of Commonwealth of Nations
- 18 June 1932Founding of International Basketball Federation
- 1937Nanjing Massacre
- 1938Founding of Samsung Group
- 22 July 1944Founding of International Monetary Fund
The era
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