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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 a parade procession, New York, July 15, 1938
Date
1938-07-15
Archival Collection
Description
An overhead view of a parade procession celebrating Howard Hughes' completion of his round-the-world flight.
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Photograph of a parade procession, New York, July 15, 1938
Date
1938-07-15
Archival Collection
Description
An overhead view of a parade procession celebrating Howard Hughes' completion of his round-the-world flight.
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Photograph of a parade procession, New York, July 15, 1938
Date
1938-07-15
Archival Collection
Description
An overhead view of a parade procession celebrating Howard Hughes' completion of his round-the-world flight.
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Photograph of a parade procession, New York, July 15, 1938
Date
1938-07-15
Archival Collection
Description
An overhead view of a parade procession celebrating Howard Hughes' completion of his round-the-world flight.
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Photograph of a parade procession, New York, July 15, 1938
Date
1938-07-15
Archival Collection
Description
An overhead view of a parade procession celebrating Howard Hughes' completion of his round-the-world flight.
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Photograph of a crowd watching the fuselage of Hughes Flying Boat in transit, California, June 16, 1946
Date
1946-06-16
Archival Collection
Description
Transcribed from stamp on back of photo: "June 16, 1946; Hughes Aircraft Photo." Crowds and policeman watching as a section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" was being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled June 1946. The men are raising the power lines so the fuselage can pass under.
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Photograph of the HK-1, Hughes Flying boat, as it returns from its historic test flight, November 2, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
A side view of the HK-1, Hughes Flying Boat, the world's largest plane, which successfully completed its first flight. The eight 3,000 horsepower engines lifted the craft from the waters of Los Angeles Harbor with Hughes at the controls. The plane is 219 ft long.
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