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Hewlett-Packard Co. (sh) and Faidherbe, Louis (-Leon-Cesar) (sh)


Hewlett-Packard Co. (sh)




U.S. manufacturer of Computers, computer printers, and measuring instruments.

Founded in 1938 in Palo Alto, Calif., by William Hewlett (1913-2001) and David Packard (1912-96), the company grew along with the electronics sector of the U.S. defense industry after World War II (1939-45). In 1966 it developed its first computer, and in 1968 one of the earliest desktop electronic calculators. Hewlett-Packard entered the personal-computer market in 1980, and its HP Laser Jet printer dominated the market for computer printers in the 1980s. By the 1990s the company was a leading maker of minicomputers used by businesses and institutions and a leader in the field of laser and inkjet printers. In 2002 the company bought rival Compaq Computer for $25 billion.


Faidherbe, Louis (-Leon-Cesar) (sh)




born June 3, 1818, Lille, Fr.
died Sept. 29, 1889, Paris

Governor of French Senegal (1854-61, 1863-65) and a founder of France's colonial empire in Africa.

Faidherbe was trained as a military engineer and served in Algeria and Senegal before becoming the colonial governor of Senegal. Alarmed by the growing power of the Islamic leader Umar Tal, he took the offensive, driving off ?Umar Tal, subjugating the Moorish tribes in the north, and transforming his colony into the region's dominant power. In 1857 he founded the capital city of Dakar.