Bill Hewlett

n. William R. Hewlett (1913-2001), co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, American inventor who invented the "Variable Frequency Oscillation Generator"

For the officer involved in the execution of Charles I of England in 1649, see William Hewlett (regicide)  William Redington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 –  January 12, 2001) was the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan but moved to San Francisco at the age of 3 years. He attended Lowell High School and was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father, Albion Walter Hewlett, who had died prematurely of a brain tumor in 1925.
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