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Term: Palo Alto

Description

Located on W shore of San Francisco Bay; name means "tall tree" & town was named after Senator Leland Standford's Palo Alto farm; site of Stanford University (1891) & related research-oriented industries.

Objects

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intelligence test, question cards
circa 1922
intelligence test, record booklet, Form M
1937
intelligence test, record booklets
circa 1922
intelligence test, record booklet, Form L
1937
intelligence test for children, Form L
1937

People

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Hewlett-Packard Company

1939-present
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Lewis M. Terman

1877 - 1956
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Maud A. Merrill

1888 - 1978
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Varian Associates

1948-present
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Kaiser Aircraft & Electronics Corporation

founded 1954

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