But their big break came when they received an order from Walt Disney Studios for eight audio oscillators that were used to test sound equipment during the production of the movie " Fantasia ."
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Loughborough had scientific instruments borrowed from the Navy Yard, and using an oscilloscope and audio oscillator he and Wheat were able to work on a new technical level that had not been possible before.
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Back then, founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard sold their first product, called an audio oscillator, to Walt Disney Co ., which used the device to test sound levels on the animated classic " Fantasia ."
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SAN JOSE, Calif . _ Silicon Valley has always had an appealing story line, beginning with the first product Bill Hewlett and David Packard ever sold : eight " audio oscillators " used to test sound equipment.
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Though it wasn't obvious at the time, one of Terman's most important achievements was encouraging two of his former students, William R . Hewlett and David Packard, to build a business around the audio oscillator they had developed.
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The instrument used in " Good Vibrations " was a Heathkit tube-type audio oscillator coupled to a mechanical action that allowed the player to mark notes along a ruler-type scale where notes could be located quickly and precisely.
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On other keyboard instruments, a key may be a lever which mechanically triggers a hammer to strike a group of strings, as on a piano, or an electric switch which energizes an audio oscillator as on an electronic organ or a synthesizer.
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The company was the original high-tech start-up, begun by Stanford University buddies William Hewlett and David Packard in Hewlett's garage in Palo Alto, Calif . in 1939 . There they built audio oscillators for the Walt Disney Co ., which used them to make the movie " Fantasia ."
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The contacts could operate an audio oscillator for the study of International Morse Code ( used by radio ), or a sounder for the study of American Morse Code ( used by railroads ), or a light bulb ( Aldis Lamp-used by Navy ship to ship or by Heliograph ).
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The group formed out of a traditional rock band called The Overland Stage Electric Band, working regularly in the LP liner notes ) to include " nine audio oscillators piled on top of each other and eighty-six manual controls to control lead, rhythm and bass pulses with hands, feet and elbows ".
