HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: William Redington Hewlett, Steeple, Computer Engineering
9 May 2016
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Cities of knowledge universities, cold war science, and the origins of silicon valley. The mythology of the garage: innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. Hewlett-packard created hp in a garage after stanford: needs: Amazon: the whole sense of a startup is important. Building something new out of nothing: the myth of the garage . American tech has very simple and humble origins. It suggests that silicon valley and seattle were created by nothing more than entrepreneurs with a dream. But this mythology obscures much more than it reveals. 20th century, federal spending and urban planning were significantly more important than individual innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. World war ii science: world war ii: the technological war. In addition to aluminum, technology was key to winning the war. The government realized they were going to need more technology: The government then looked to universities for research. They already had labs and there was a research atmosphere.
