Business Blog: Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

If you’re interested at all in business history, check out this photoset documenting a group visit to the garage where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard (and their wives!) built up the business of Hewlett-Packard starting in 1939.

The two engineers’ first product was an audio oscillator, and their company — first HP itself, and since 1999 its Agilent spinoff — has always maintained an important position in the world of electrical and electronic instrumentation.