Articles on Various
Persons of Interest
related to Hewlett Packard
updated May 14, 2020
The following links are to oral histories, articles, and general
information related to various persons of interest. Some of
the links may be short lived. I check them from time to
time to remove dead links and add new ones I find.
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Oral-History:William_Hewlett
William Hewlett, Electrical Engineer, an oral history
conducted in 1984 by A. Michal McMahon, IEEE History Center,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. This is an interview
with Mr. Hewlett and has many interesting historical details.
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/news/2001_Jan_17.HEWLETT.html
This is an article about the passing of Mr. Hewlett.
Mr. Packard
A
short biography of David Packard
Art Fong
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2005/2005_05_18.afong18.shtml
This is an article about Art Fong who began
employment at HP 1946 and developed many of the microwave
products.
http://www.hparchive.com/video_fong_2009-05-08.htm
This is a short video interview with Art Fong.
Bernard (Barney) Oliver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_M._Oliver
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/community_pulse/1995_Nov_29.OBITS29.html
Fredrick Terman
In the 1930's Mr. Hewlett and Mr. Packard
attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and became
good friends. They took electrical engineering courses under
Professor Fredrick Terman who is well known as a great instructor
and author of several textbooks on electrical engineering (I
think I own a copy of every edition of every book he wrote. It is
interesting to study the same books that Mr. Hewlett and Mr.
Packard studied. I consider the old textbooks to be vastly
superior to modern textbooks in both depth of coverage and
quality of presentation.). Professor Terman assigned Mr. Hewlett
a project to investigate a new concept in the generation of sine
waves. This project was the basis for the thesis Mr. Hewlett
wrote for his Master of Science degree in electrical engineering,
A New Type of Resistance-Capacity Oscillator. This thesis
is hard to obtain. The usual sources for academic papers do not
have a copy as far as I have been able to determine. The only
source I know of is the Stanford University library which you
either have to visit in person or arrange for an interlibrary
loan of the copy on file (Cat key: 2485315, Call number: 3781 S78
H, Author: Hewlett, William Redington, Title: A new type of
resistance-capacity oscillator, Imprint: 1939, Library: SAL,
Location: STACKS). I was fortunate to find a pdf copy of it on a
temporary Internet site. The best way to find it is to search for
the exact phrase, a new type of resistance, on the
advanced search option in Google. If you find it by all means
download and print it - it is only 17 pages total and there is
much you can learn from it. You will always find mentions of the
paper - there will be no doubt when you actually find the real
thing. It would be very appropriate for either the
Hewlett-Packard Company or Agilent Technologies to post this
paper on their web site along with the other history. I intend to
inquire about that possibility.
http://www.smecc.org/in_memoriam____frederick_emmons_terman_1900-_1982.htm
This page has internal links to several articles concerning
Fredrick Terman who taught both Mr. Hewlett and Mr. Packard at
Stanford University and encouraged them to start a company
together.
http://www.smecc.org/frederick_terman_-_by_ed_sharpe.htm
This is a biography of Fred Terman.
http://www.smecc.org/frederick_terman.htm This is another
excellent biography of Fred Terman.
The following is a list of books written by Terman that are in my
collection listed in order of publication. I frequently
refer to the Radio Engineering Handbook, Electronic
Measurements, and the fourth edition of Electronic and
Radio Engineering in my work. As far as I can tell,
Terman wrote a total of eight books as listed below. He was
co-author and editor of many other books.
- Radio Engineering, first edition,
1932, published by McGraw-Hill
- Measurements in Radio Engineering,
first edition, 1935, published by McGraw-Hill
- Radio Engineering, second edition,
1937, published by McGraw-Hill
- Fundamentals of Radio, first
edition, 1938, published by McGraw-Hill. This is an
abridged version of Radio Engineering.
- Radio Engineering Handbook, first
edition, 1943, published by McGraw-Hill
- Radio Engineering, third edition,
1947, published by McGraw-Hill
- Electronic Measurements, second
edition, 1952. Frederick Emmons Terman and Joseph Mayo
Pettit, published by McGraw-Hill. This is the second
edition of Measurements in Radio Engineering with a
more general title.
- Electronic and Radio Engineering,
fourth edition, 1955, published by McGraw-Hill
The first book that included Terman as a co-author was
Transmission Line Theory, and Some Related Topics by
William Suddards Franklin, ScD, and Frederick Emmons Terman, ScD,
1926, publisher unknown. This information comes from the
book, Fred Terman at Stanford as described below.
I am presently reading the book, Fred Terman at
Stanford subtitled Building a Discipline, A
University, and Silicon Valley, by C. Stewart Gillmore,
published by the Stanford University Press, Stanford, California,
2004. This is a very detailed biography of Mr. Terman and
is over 500 pages long with over an additional 100 pages of
appendix, notes, bibliography, and index.
Miscellaneous links of interest
http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/stanford-magazine-founding_fathers.shtml
Links to other web pages on this site
http://www.kennethkuhn.com/hpmuseum This link
takes you to the main HP Museum page.
http://www.kennethkuhn.com This link
takes you to the main page of my personal web site where you can
access a variety of information.