HP Garage, Technology museum in Palo Alto, United States.
The small wooden garage at 367 Addison Avenue contains the original workspace where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their technology company in 1939.
Starting with only 538 dollars in capital, Hewlett and Packard developed their first product, an audio oscillator, which Disney purchased for the production of Fantasia.
The National Register of Historic Places listed property stands as the foundation point of Silicon Valley's technology industry development in California.
While the garage remains closed to public access, visitors can observe the exterior of this Georgian architecture structure from the sidewalk of Addison Avenue.
The house connected to the garage belonged to Palo Alto's first mayor, John Spencer, who resided there with his family from 1905.
Location: Palo Alto
Inception: 1939
Official opening: 1939
Architectural style: Georgian architecture
Address: 367 Addison Avenue
Phone: +16692640649
Website: https://hpmuseum.org/garage/garage.htm
GPS coordinates: 37.44294,-122.15459
Latest update: May 26, 2025 21:47
Silicon Valley gathers the headquarters of big tech companies like Meta, Apple, Google, and Oracle. Their campuses are modern, with glass towers and low buildings surrounded by gardens. Apple Park forms a ring of glass amid the hills of Cupertino, while Oracle's blue cylindrical towers remind visitors of their database roots. Google has several areas in Mountain View with colorful buildings and large sculptures of Android mascots. Some garages show where these companies started. The one where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP in 1939 in Palo Alto now has a plaque up. In Los Altos, the family garage where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the first Apple computers in 1976 is a place that curious visitors like to see. Stanford University, founded in the late 1800s, covers a large area south of San Francisco. Its labs and research programs still train engineers and entrepreneurs. Museums like the Intel museum tell the story of microprocessors from the 1960s onward.
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