Agilent Technologies, or Agilent,'s a company which designs and manufactures instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation. The company's headquarters are in Santa Clara, California. Many of Agilent's predecessor product lines were developed by the American computing company Hewlett-Packard, which was founded in 1939. In 1999, the product lines not directly connected with computers, storage, and imaging were grouped into a separate company (Agilent), the stock of which was offered to… (More on Agilent)