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Photograph of worker in Hughes Machine Shop, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s

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Date

1940 to 1959

Description

The Hughes Laboratory machine shop is devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool and joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and field testing. In connection with the latter, the shop is equipped to manufacture these tools in sufficient quantities to make possible extensive and simultaneous field trials. The machine shop handles a large amount of work for the Research, Product and Metallurgical Engineering departments. This includes building new designs, new mechanisms and new devices for preliminary testing.

Digital ID

whh000413

Physical Identifier

0321_0444
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whh000413. Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs, 1916-1997. PH-00321. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1125qh1n

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Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

Date Digitized

2012-09-28

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English

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

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