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Bill Hewlett (William Redington Hewlett) was born on 20 May, 1913 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., is an American engineer. Discover Bill Hewlett's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

Popular As William Redington Hewlett
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Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 20 May, 1913
Birthday 20 May
Birthplace Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
Date of death 2001
Died Place Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Flora Lamson (m. 1939-1977) Rosemary Bradford (m. 1978)

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1913

William Redington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).

Hewlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his father taught at the University of Michigan Medical School.

1916

In 1916 the family moved to San Francisco after his father, Albion Walter Hewlett, took a similar position at Stanford Medical School, located at the time in San Francisco.

1925

He was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father who died of a brain tumor in 1925.

1929

He attended Lowell High School and was the 1929-1930 Battalion Commander of the school's Army JROTC program.

1934

Hewlett received his bachelor's degree from Stanford in 1934, a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1936, and a post-masters engineering degree in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1939.

He joined the Kappa Sigma fraternity during his time at Stanford.

Hewlett also had dyslexia, which caused him to struggle with reading and taking notes.

Hewlett attended undergraduate classes taught by Fred Terman at Stanford and became acquainted with David Packard.

1939

Packard and he began discussing forming a company in August 1937, and founded Hewlett-Packard Company as a partnership on January 1, 1939.

A flip of a coin decided the ordering of their names.

Their first big breakthrough came when Disney purchased eight audio oscillators designed by Hewlett which were used for the production of the film Fantasia.

Hewlett married Flora Lamson in 1939, and had 5 children with her: Eleanor, Walter, James, William and Mary.

They had 12 grandchildren.

1947

The company incorporated in 1947 and tendered an initial public offering in 1957.

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were proud of their company culture which came to be known as the HP Way.

The HP Way is a corporate culture that claimed to be centered not only on making money but also on respecting and nurturing its employees.

1954

Hewlett was president of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1954.

1956

Hewlett was a Director for Hexcel Products Incorporated (became Hexcel, founded by his wife Flora's brother in law Roscoe "Bud" Hughes) from 1956 to 1965, and worked on their executive committee.

1960

Starting in the 1960s Hewlett committed much of his time and wealth towards numerous philanthropic causes.

1964

He was president of HP from 1964 to 1977 and served as CEO from 1968 to 1978, after which he was succeeded by John A. Young.

1966

Hewlett was also elected to the board of directors for Chrysler Corporation in 1966, a position he held until 1983.

In 1966, William Hewlett and his wife Flora founded the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which became one of the largest private foundations in the United States.

Aside from the foundation Hewlett gave millions of dollars to universities, schools, museums, non-profit organizations and other organizations.

Stanford University was a large recipient of his philanthropy.

1969

Hewlett served as a Director of Chase Manhattan Bank (became JPMorgan Chase) from 1969 to 1980.

1977

His wife died in 1977.

1978

In 1978, Hewlett married Rosemary Kopmeier Bradford.

He was a committed conservationist and avid outdoorsman.

As an amateur photographer and botanist, he took many photographs and samples of wildflowers.

1983

He remained chairman of the executive committee until 1983, and then served as vice chairman of the board until 1987.

A young Steve Jobs, then age 12, called Hewlett (whose number was in the phone book) and requested any available parts for a frequency counter he was building.

Hewlett, impressed with Jobs' initiative, offered him a summer job assembling frequency counters.

Jobs then considered HP one of the companies that he admired, regarding it among the handful of companies (Disney and Intel were the others) that were built “to last, not just to make money”.

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple along with Jobs, unsuccessfully attempted five times to sell the Apple I computer to HP while working there.

The early Apple computers were built with HP parts, under a legal release from HP.

Of the missed opportunity, Hewlett reportedly said, "You win some, you lose some."

Hewlett served in the Army during World War II as a Signal Corps Officer.

He then led the electronics section of the Development Division, a new part of the War Department Special Staff.

After the war he was part of a special team that inspected Japanese Industry.