Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies History Center records, circa 1939-2008.
Core elements of the collection include: Printed materials such as annual reports, product catalogs, and company publications, such as the first weekly employee newsletter, dating back to 1943, which documents the culture of the World War II years in a West Coast, applied technology company. Visual Collections that illustrate products and process, plants, activities and events and employees from 1939 to the present. The Oral History Collection which contains over one hundred interviews with former executives, scientists, engineers, salespeople and office and factory workers.
Although attempts were made as early as 1970 to preserve Hewlett-Packard Companys historical material, a professionally administered archival program did not officially begin until 1987 as a 50th anniversary project. In 1999, the Hewlett-Packard corporation spun off its test and measurement organization as an independent entity called Agilent Technologies. The HP company archives founder, Karen Lewis, went to Agilent with the test and measurement portion of the collection. In 2005 ownership of the collection was transferred to the Agilent Technologies Foundation. It is in this context that the Foundations executive director, Karen Lewis, developed the History Center, which puts a public face on the companys contribution to local, state national and international history.
Agilent Technologies
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Annual reports. aat
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Oral histories. aat
Photograph collections. aat
Publications. aat
AIP-ICOS
Agilent Technologies. History Center. 301 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA.