Hewlett-Packard founded
1939 · Event
Bill Hewlett and David Packard start an electronics company in a Palo Alto garage, the iconic Silicon Valley firm.
On these timelines: The Digital Revolution, Science & Technology, Master, USA
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- Google founded (1998)
- Turing's On Computable Numbers (1936)
- First website goes online (1990)
- Moore's Law formulated (1965)
- Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
- Mosaic makes the web visual (1993)
- Apple II launched (1977)
Around 1939
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)