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Photograph of a drill bit at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from attached press release: "LITTLE BIT Only an inch and a quarter in diameter, this "microbit" enables engineers at the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, to estimate the performance of full-size bits for the oil drilling industry. The company operates the largest testing laboratory of its kind anywhere in the world and produces thousands of rock bits necessary to drill deeper and deeper as the world's shallow oil wells have become exhausted. Howard Hughes terms the Hughes Tool company the "keystone" of his industrial empire."
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Photograph of the first XF-11 plane at the Hughes Airport, Culver City, California, July 3, 1947
Date
1946-07-03
Archival Collection
Description
The XF-11 plane before its first flight at the Hughes Airport in Culver City, California.
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Howard Cannon with Wilbur Clark at the World Congress of Flight: photographic print
Date
1959-04
Archival Collection
Description
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)
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Howard Cannon with posed unidentified young people: black-and-white photographs
Date
1950 (year approximate) to 1983 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)
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Men working on Hughes rock drilling bit piece 5411-482 at the Hughes Tool company in Houston, Texas, approximately 1950-1959
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00321
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 16
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 16
Archival Component
General Ira C. Eaker, the Vice President of Hughes Tool Company and Hughes Aircraft, giving an unidentified man an award, approximately 1940-1959
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00321
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 16
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 16
Archival Component
Sale of Mad Wednesday and Vendetta from California Pictures to Hughes Tool Company, with financial loans to California Pictures, 1947 October 01 to 1948 March 15
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Film Production Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01036
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 323 (Restrictions apply)
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 323 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Photograph of Hughes HK-1 Flying Boat at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor, 1947
Date
1947
Archival Collection
Description
The Hughes HK-1 Hercules Flying Boat shown tied to its dock at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor in 1947.
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Senators Howard Cannon and Edward Kennedy: photographic print
Date
1950 (year approximate) to 1983 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)
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