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Hewlett Packard Garage

94301 Palo Alto, CA, United States of America (USA) (California)
Address 367 Addison Ave
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Heritage- or City Museum
  • Craft
  • Measuring Instruments, Lab Equipment
  • Historic Engineering Landmarks

Opening times
 Though not open for public tours, the property can be viewed daily from the sidewalk and driveway. Openings on special days and special tours. Free parking on the street.

Admission
Status from 02/2024
 Free entry.
Contact
Tel.:1-800-SAN-JOSE   
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.sanjose.org/attraction/hp-garage
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Location / Directions
N37.443070° W122.154810°N37°26.58420' W122°9.28860'N37°26'35.0520" W122°9'17.3160"
Rail
Train service is available via Caltrain with service between San Francisco and San Jose and extending to Gilroy. Caltrain has two regular stops in Palo Alto, the main one at the Palo Alto Station in downtown Palo Alto (local, limited, and express) and the other at California Avenue, (local and limited).

Roads
Palo Alto is served by two major freeways, Highway 101 and Interstate 280.

Some example model pages for sets you can see there:

USA: Hewlett-Packard, HP; Audio Oscillator 200A (1939-46)
Description

An excellent description is listed on the Museum of HP Calculators website.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The HP Garage is a private museum where the company Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded. It is considered to be the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley." In the 1930s, Stanford University and its Dean of Engineering Frederick Terman began encouraging faculty and graduates to stay in the area instead of leaving California, and develop a high-tech region. HP founders William Hewlett and David Packard are considered the first Stanford students who took Terman's advice.

The garage has since been designated a California Historical Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History
In 1937, David "Dave" Packard, then 25 years old, visited William "Bill" Hewlett in Palo Alto and the pair had their first business meeting. Both men attended Stanford University, where its Dean of Engineering Frederick Terman encouraged his students to establish their own electronics companies in the area instead of leaving California.

In 1938, newly married Dave and Lucile Packard moved into 367 Addison Ave, the first-floor three-room apartment, with Bill Hewlett sleeping in the shed.  Hewlett and Packard began to use the one-car garage, with $538 in capital.

In 1939, Hewlett and Packard formed their partnership with a coin toss, creating the name Hewlett-Packard.

Hewlett-Packard's first product, built in the garage, was an audio oscillator, the HP200A. One of Hewlett-Packard's first customers was Walt Disney Studios, which purchased eight oscillators to test and certify the sound systems in theaters that were going to run the first major film released in stereophonic sound, Fantasia
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