Electrical Engineering Hall of Fame: William R. Hewlett [Scanning our Past]
James E. Brittain · Proceedings of the IEEE · 2010
In 1992, the cofounder of the Hewlett-Packard Company, William R. Hewlett, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in recognition of his invention of a variable-frequency oscillator. The oscillator served as the original stimulus for the formation of the company, which became one of the world's foremost manufacturers.