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Bill Hewlett

American engineer
William Redington Hewlett was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company. Wikipedia
Born: May 20, 1913, Ann Arbor, MI
Died: January 12, 2001 (age 87 years), Palo Alto, CA
Children: 5
Spouse: Flora Hewlett (m. 1939–1977)

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William Redington Hewlett (/ˈhjuːlɪt/ HEW-lit; May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).
In 1939, Hewlett and Packard decided to formalize their partnership. They tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard (HP) or Packard-Hewlett.
He died on March 26, 1996, at age 83 in Stanford, California, leaving approximately $4 billion (the bulk of his estate) to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, including large amounts of valuable real property in Los Altos Hills.
In 1939 Hewlett and Packard established their enterprise in Packard's garage. A coin toss decided their company name—the result was the Hewlett Packard Company. Their first product was a resistance capacity audio oscillator, based on Hewlett's graduate work, which Walt Disney Studios purchased to produce Fantasia.
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William Redington Hewlett was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Bill Hewlett. Born.
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Hewlett was born on May 20, 1913, in Ann Arbor, Mich. He attended Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., and received a bachelor of arts degree in 1934.
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were the founders of Hewlett-Packard who started from a garage and emerged as a success story in technology and innovation.
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After graduation in 1934, Hewlett went to MIT to earn a master's degree in electrical engineering, while Packard worked at General Electric. Following these ...
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William “Bill” Hewlett (1913-2001) helped launch the computing giant Hewlett-Packard in 1939 with his friend and fellow Stanford alum David Packard.
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William R. Hewlett is best known for helping birth Silicon Valley, but the apple of his eye for most of his life was the fledgling university he nurtured and ...