David Packard Founder of HP
David Packard Founder of HP

Biography of David Packard

Early Life

David Packard founder of HP was a famous electrical engineer of United States of America. He was born in the year of 1912 on September 7th in Pueblo, Colorado in USA. He was admitted in Centennial high school for his early education where he was much interested in science and sports. He was considered as a brilliant student from very young age. After that, he joined Stanford University for his degree of B.A in 1934.

Interest in Electrical Engineering

David Packard interest in computers and electrical engineering suddenly grew up and he thought to earn his Masters degree in this field. After this, he joined University of Stanford for his Masters in electrical field. After his degree, he started a job in general electric company but he continued to attend classes arranged by different councils about electrical engineering. Once in same kind of classes, he met William Hewlett.

Co Founder of Hewlett Packard

David Packard is also widely credited as the co founder of HP with William Hewlett. Due to his interest in field he was also taking classes of Fred Terman who was famous electrical engineer at that time. During these classes, once he met William Hewlett who was also an electrical engineer. As both of them had the same interests, soon they became good friends. They discussed to form a company based on their work and as a result founded Hewlett Packard Company in a joint venture in the year of 1939 on January 1. The company tendered its first public offer in year of 1957.

Hewlett Packard

Hewlett Packard also known as HP is a computer technology based company founded by William Hewlett and David Packard in the year of 1939. Initially the company was not running well but after its first public tender in 1957, the company didn’t turn back and passed the mountains of progress. Presently it is one of the largest selling computer brands which are producing many new models every year. Formerly it was just limited to production of desktop computers but after that, now days it is famous for assembling of laptops, projectors and display screens production.

Death

David Packard died in the year of 1996 on March 26th in Stanford, California in United States of America. He was 83 years of age at the time of his death. His co founded company HP is a giant of modern world computers known mostly for its unique style laptops and other products.