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Full Name :Hewlett-Packard (HP) Founded :1939 Founder : William Redington Hewlett CEO :Meg Whitman Industry :Technology Sector :Public Country :USA Website : hp.com Today, the Silicon Valley in California is world-renowned as the center of technology and innovation. Many of the startup companies from Palo Alto, like Google and Facebook, have become household names throughout the world. Yet, the birth of Palo Alto was not signaled by the birth of the Internet. In fact, the area was home to technology startups as early as the 1930s. In 1938, two friends from Stanford University got together in a one car garage and created one of the world’s first computing and technology companies: HP. The story of Hewlett Packard is the story of two young men with a passion for electronics and technology. These two men wanted to make a difference not only in the world of electrical engineering but in the world of business. Today, HP maintains a consistent standing at t...

In The Beginning… The history of computers starts out about 2000 years ago, at the birth of the abacus, a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on them. When these beads are moved around, according to programming rules memorized by the user, all regular arithmetic problems can be done. Another important invention around the same time was the Astrolabe, used for navigation. Blaise Pascal is usually credited for building the first digital computer in 1642. It added numbers entered with dials and was made to help his father, a tax collector. In 1671, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz invented a computer that was built in 1694. It could add, and, after changing some things around, multiply. Leibniz invented a special stepped gear mechanism for introducing the addend digits, and this is still being used. The prototypes made by Pascal and Leibniz were not used in many places, and considered weird until a little more than a century later, when Thomas of Colmar (A.K.A. ...

1279 BC Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great becomes Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt (19th Dynasty) 70 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem 1223 Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River - Mongol armies of Genghis Khan lead by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans. 1417 Jacoba of Bavaria becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen 1495 Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League 1531 "Women's Revolt" in Amsterdam: wool house in churchyard aborted 1578 Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England, to Frobisher Bay, Canada. Eventually mines fools gold, famously used to pave the streets of London. Event of interestEvent of Interest 1621 Sir Francis Bacon imprisoned in the Tower of London for 1 night 1634 The colony of Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony 1659 Netherlands, England and France sign Treaty of The Hague 1665 Jerusalem's rabbi Sjabt...

1431  Hundred Years' War: 19 year old  Joan of Arc  is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal in Rouen, France 1539   Spanish explorer  Hernando de Soto  discovers Florida 1848   Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million 1868   "Decoration Day", later called Memorial Day is first observed in Northern US states 1913   Treaty of London signed by the Great Powers, the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Balkan League (Serbia, Greece, Kingdom of Bulgaria, and Montenegro) bringing an end to the First Balkan War. 1951 Indianapolis 500: Lee Wallard wins in 3:57:38.103 (203.170 km/h) 1952 Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves 1952 Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite" premieres 1952 Indianapolis 500: Troy Ruttman wins in 3:52:41.930 (207.480 km/h) 1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cl...

Independence from British rule came to pass in Nigeria on the 1 st  of October, 1960. This was the year Nigeria assumed both political and military control of its territory. As at that time, Nigeria was still following the British system of government in which there is a prime minister and a ceremonial president. The ceremonial president of Nigeria then was Nnamdi Azikiwe, while the Prime Minister was Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. The two of them assumed reigns of leadership due to the partnership that was foisted between the National Congress of Nigeria and Cameroun and the Northern People’s Congress in 1959 during the general election that was held then to choose the president, prime minister and members of the house of assembly. However, Nigeria had not broken all ties with the British as at the time of independence. There were still some elements of British dominance until 1963 when Nigeria became a full republic.  This was the year Nigeria broke all ties from the Br...