Guide to the Alan Bagley papers M2746

Gurudarshan Khalsa

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

2021

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford 94305-6064

specialcollections@stanford.edu

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Title: Alan Bagley papers

Creator: Bagley, Alan

source: McKinney, Webb

Identifier/Call Number: M2746

Physical Description: 3 Linear Feet (7 manuscript storage boxes and one half manuscript storage box)

Physical Description: 0.245 gigabyte(s) 1 CD-RW

Date (inclusive): 1950-2003

Scope and Contents

Communications, technical notes, in-house publications, newspaper clippings, organizational charts, catalogs, training manuals, and other materials related to the career of Alan Bagley, primarily at Hewlett-Packard.

Conditions Governing Use

While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Conditions Governing Access

Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual & born-digital materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

Biographical / Historical

Alan Bagley was a longtime Hewlett-Packard engineer and manager.

Alan Bagley was born in Pasadena, California on January 8, 1924 and grew up in Twentynine Palms. Bagley served in the Air Force during World War II. He received a BSEE degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1948 and an MSEE degree from Stanford University in 1949. He was an HP Fellow while at Stanford and was hired by HP after graduation. Bagley worked as a development engineer, engineering group leader, manager and general manager. He was involved in the development of the HP524 series counters, the Cesium Standard 'Atomic' Clock and was the general manager of the Frequency of Time Division and the Santa Clara Division. In 1976 Bagley was promoted to Corporate Engineering Manager. He retired in 1986.

Bagley was involved with the Institute of Radio Engineers, the Los Altos History Museum, and served on the board of the SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute.

Bagley died on June 24, 2018.

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Alan Bagley papers (M2746). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, California.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

McKinney, Webb

Box 1, Folder 1

Talks 1950-1953

Box 1, Folder 2

Conference papers 1951-1955

Box 1, Folder 3

Retirement and early career 1951-1986

Box 1, Folder 4

Lab lecture notes 1953

Box 1, Folder 5

Patents 1956-1978

Box 1, Folder 6

Toastmasters 1951-1957

Box 1, Folder 7

Performance evaluations and retirement 1963-1989

Box 1, Folder 8

Evaluations 1984-1986

Box 1, Folder 9

An employee's letter to William R. Hewlett and David Packard 1990

Box 1, Folder 10

Song of twenty-nine trees

Box 1, Folder 11

Bagley return factor derivation - HP Fellowship 2003

Box 2, Folder 1

Al Bagley HP memoir and other material

Box 2, Folder 2

Hewlett Packard Company preliminary sales seminar 1954

Box 2, Folder 3

Hewlett Packard Company management conference 1957

Box 2, Folder 4

Hewlett Packard Company 2nd annual management conference 1958

Box 2, Folder 5

Hewlett Packard Company 3rd annual management conference 1959

Box 2, Folder 6

Hewlett Packard Company 5th annual management conference 1961

Box 2, Folder 7

Monterey conference data 1965

Box 2, Folder 8

Barney Oliver's evaluation of Hewlett Packard Labs for David Packard (folder 1 of 8) 1991

Box 2, Folder 9

Barney Oliver's evaluation of Hewlett Packard Labs for David Packard (folder 2 of 8) 1991

Box 3, Folder 1

Barney Oliver's evaluation of Hewlett Packard Labs for David Packard (folder 3 of 8) 1991

Box 3, Folder 2

Barney Oliver's evaluation of Hewlett Packard Labs for David Packard (folder 4 of 8) 1991

Box 3, Folder 3

Barney Oliver's evaluation of Hewlett Packard Labs for David Packard (folder 5 of 8) 1991

Box 3, Folder 4

Barney Oliver's evaluation of Hewlett Packard Labs for David Packard (folder 6 of 8) 1991

Box 3, Folder 5

Barney Oliver's evaluation of Hewlett Packard Labs for David Packard (folder 7 of 8) 1991

Box 3, Folder 6

Barney Oliver's evaluation of Hewlett Packard Labs for David Packard (folder 8 of 8) 1991

Box 4, Folder 1

Financial reports 1995-1999

Box 4, Folder 2

Hewlett Packard sales organization and miscellaneous data and organizational information 1960

Box 4, Folder 3

Hewlett Packard data and organizational information 1955-1999

Box 4, Folder 4

Ed Hilton's Hewlett Packard graph

Box 4, Folder 5

Quota performance by marketing sector 1988

Box 4, Folder 6

Hewlett Packard organization and business articles 1967-1998

Box 4, Folder 7

Hewlett Packard organization charts 1969

Box 4, Folder 8

Hewlett Packard information and philosophy 1976-1998

Box 5, Folder 1

Corporate objectives and philosophy 1961-1997

Box 5, Folder 2

The HP way - audiobook

Box 5, Folder 3

David Packard 1960-1996

Box 5, Folder 4

David Packard 1959-1996

Box 5, Folder 5

John Young era at HP 1979-1990

Box 5, Folder 6

Carly Fiorina and the HP/Compaq merger (1 of 2) 1998-2002

Box 6, Folder 1

Carly Fiorina and the HP/Compaq merger (2 of 2) 1998-2002

Box 6, Folder 2

Photocopies of Elwell's History of electronics and communications

Box 6, Folder 3

HP computer history 1980-2002

Box 6, Folder 4

Counter history

Box 6, Folder 5

Ed Porter, Paul Stoft and Kay Magleby

Box 6, Folder 6

Inside HP: A narrative history of Hewlett-Packard from 1939-1995 by John Minck

Box 6, Folder 7

Hewlett-Packard Journal, Volumes 1-10 1949-1959

Box 6, Folder 8

Hewlett-Packard Journal 1950-1954

Box 7, Folder 1

Hewlett-Packard Journal 1964-1965

Box 7, Folder 2

Hewlett-Packard Journal 1969-1980

Box 7, Folder 3

Hewlett-Packard Journal and catalog 1975-1977

Box 7, Folder 4

Invent 2001

Box 7, Folder 5

Watt's current 1945-1964

Box 7, Folder 6

Observations from Russia by David Packard 1959

Box 7, Folder 7

The Santa Clarion 1976-1987

Box 7, Folder 8

Measure 1964-2000

Box 7, Folder 9

Circuit technology Fall 1989

Box 7, Folder 10

Instrumentation article 1985-1986

Box 7, Folder 11

Hewlett-Packard catalogs 1945-1955

Box 7, Folder 12

Hewlett-Packard catalog 1961

Box 8, Folder 1

Interfacing concepts and the 9825A

Box 8, Folder 2

Field training manual: 5100A/5110A frequency sythesizer 1963

Box 8, Folder 3

200A, AR, B, BR audio oscillator: operation and service manual

Box 8, Folder 4

Photocopies of the original 200A audio oscillator design lab notebook

Box 8, Folder 5

Electronic counter 5345A

Box 8, Folder 6

Slides

Box 8, Folder 7

Hewlett-Packard's 50th anniversary pin 1989

Box 8, Folder 8

Circular slide rule

Box 8, Folder 9

Neely Enterprises product directory and facilities report 1960-1961

Box 8, Folder 10

Palo Alto Engineering Company - policy manual

Box 8, Folder 11

Frequency Electronics Inc. - company profile report 1987