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Photograph of a worker at Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s

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Creator

Date

1940 to 1959

Description

Press release attached to back of photo: "A roughneck fits a new Hughes Jet bit into the drill collar preparatory to running the drill stem into the hold. In 1953 more than 500,000 rock bits produced by the Hughes Tool Company of Houston, Texas, were used in the United States alone. The invention of the rock bit by Howard R. Hughes, Sr., made it possible to drill far deeper into the earth beyond the shallow oil deposits which are now practically exhausted. Without rotary drilling equipment of this kind the world might revert to a horse and buggy economy."

Digital ID

whh000419

Physical Identifier

0321_0445
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Citation

whh000419. 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/d17m0467z

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Digital Provenance

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

Date Digitized

2012-09-28

Extent

5923 x 4801 pixels
9.87 x 8 inches
85,311,488 bytes

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

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image/tiff