1947 – Watts

01/10/47         

  • New Year Finds Many Department Location Changes, 3.
  • Carry-Forwards for Taxpayers, 4.
  • Art Fong hired

01/17/47       

  • Another Great -hp- Instrument — New -hp- Model 610A UHF Signal Generator, 3.
  • New Instrument Being Shipped This Week (202B oscillator), 3.
  • Watt’s Current Now A Monthly, 3.
  • -hp- Personality of the Week, 4.
  • Bill Mullen, head of the -hp- Pint Shop

01/24/47         

  • Need for Flexible Walls Urgent at -hp-, 3.
  • -hp- Personality of the Week, 4.
  • Brunton Bauer, Chief Development Engineer

01/31/47

  • COVER PHOTO:  the Garage on Addison Avenue
  • Bill Warren Hold -hp- Seminar on Original Research of Intermodulation—Electronics Industry Intrigued, Frank Burkhard, 3.
  • -hp- Personality of the Week, 4.
  • Harvey Zieber, only remaining employee of the original group

02/21/47

  • FIRST ISSUE OF WATT’S CURRENT AS A MONTHLY PUBLICATION (PREVIOUSLY WEEKLY).
  • Packard and Eldred to Attend N.Y. IRE Show, 1.
  • 616A Going to the Show!, 3.

03/21/47

  • Packard-Eldred Due Home Monday — Eastern Business Trip Nears Completion, 1.

04/25/47 

  • Packard-Eldred Eastern Trip Results Highly Significant–Dave States -hp-‘s Future Appears Very Promising, Dave Packard, 1.
  • I.R.E. Hears Talk on Radio Aids to Blind Flying (Aviation) at March Meet, Howard Zeidler, 3.

05/16/47

  • Bill Hewlett Elected to Board of Works, 1.
  • Bill and Dave Announce New Pay Policy, 1.
  • Hewlett-Packard Equipment at War, PHOTOS, Art Fong, 3.

06/20/47  

  • G.E. Exhibits Modern X-Ray at IRE Meeting, Art Fong, 1.

07/18/47

  •  H-P Installs Hot-Cold Test Box (Air Conditioning for the Lab?), Art Fong, 1.
  • Editorially Speaking, William Bigler (Watt’s Current editor), 2.
  • regarding racial discrimination in the Peninsula area
  • The Latest Addition to H-P’s Electronic Family (650A Resistance-Tuned Oscillator), 3.

09/12/47

  • Hewlett-Packard Company Becomes Closed Corporation — Reasons and Effects of Change Set Forth by Hewlett, 1.
  • Electronics Convention and Trade Show in S.F., 1.
  • H-P Expands — Construction Slated to Begin Next Month, 3.

10/17/47

  • Hewlett-Packard Co. Well Represented at I.R.E.–WCEMA Affair, 1.
  • H-P Goes Over Top in Youth Fund Drive ($590.00), 1.
  • H-P Company Becomes Factor in Frequency Modulation broadcast (New Model 335-B), 3.

11/14/47

  •  Packard Returns From Eastern Trip — Hewlett Goes on to Washington, D.C., 1.
  • H-P’s Boris “Bob” Doudoroff, Former Read Admiral in Russian Navy, PHOTO, 4.

12/19/47

  • A Xmas Message from Dave and Bill, 1.
  • Kingman’s Latest — Resistor Card Fabricator, 1.