Boonton Radio Corporation, founded in 1934, manufactured test instruments.

History

Early history

The company was founded in 1934 by William D. Loughlin and others in

Boonton, New Jersey Boonton is a Town (New Jersey), town in Morris County, New Jersey, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 8,815, an increase of 468 (+5.6%) from the 2010 United States census, 20 ...

. The company developed and manufactured many innovative instruments, the most significant (and earliest) being the

Q meter A Q meter is a piece of equipment used in the testing of radio frequency circuits. It has been largely replaced in professional laboratories by other types of impedance measuring devices, though it is still in use among radio amateurs. It was de ...

. The instruments they developed were mostly used for measuring for radio technology.Boonton Q-Meter Type 160-A, 1946
— HP Virtual Museum

Hewlett-Packard

In 1959,

Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...

purchased Boonton Radio Corporation as a "wholly owned subsidiary" and continued to sell a number of its products, including the RX meter. Boonton Radio Corporation was the second acquisition HP made.

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