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  1. Jan 13, 2001 · William Redington Hewlett, the electrical engineer who in 1938 with David Packard pulled together $538 to set up a tiny electronics company in a Palo Alto, Calif., garage that ultimately led to...

  2. Jul 12, 2021 · Though noteworthy as individuals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard built careers as promising engineers before co-founding HP in 1939. How’d they become engineers, how’d they meet, and what key innovations arose from that collaboration? The Life of Bill Hewlett. Bill (William) Hewlett was born in Ann

  3. William Hewlett (born May 20, 1913, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.—died January 12, 2001, Palo Alto, California) American engineer and businessman who cofounded the electronics and computer corporation Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Hewlett’s interest in science and electronics started when he was a child, and in 1930 he began studying ...

  4. HEWLETT, William Redington ("Bill")(b. 20 May 1913 in Ann Arbor, Michigan; d. 12 January 2001 in Palo Alto, California), and David PACKARD (b. 7 September 1912 in Pueblo, Colorado; d. 26 March 1996 in Stanford, California), electronics engineers, inventors, and businessmen who helped build Hewlett-Packard into one of the world's largest ...

  5. William Hewlett — co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. WilliamBillHewlett (1913-2001) helped launch the computing giant Hewlett-Packard in 1939 with his friend and fellow Stanford alum David Packard. Their startup in a Palo Alto garage became one of the founding stories of Silicon Valley.

  6. Hewlett was born in 1913 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Following his duty as an army officer in World War II, Hewlett served as president (1964-1977) and chief executive officer (1969-1978) of Hewlett Packard Company. He also held other positions and last served as director emeritus. Hewlett died in 2001.

  7. In 1938, working out of a small garage in Palo Alto, California, two young Stanford graduates named Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard built their first product, an audio oscillator. It was the...

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