Howard R. Hughes Sr.
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Howard Robard Hughes Sr. was an American businessman and inventor who founded the Hughes Tool Company. He invented the "Sharp–Hughes" two-cone rotary drill bit during the Texas Oil Boom. Hughes was th
Hughes in 1917
The Fishtail Bit. The drilling technology prior to the patent by Hughes.
Hughes rotary bi-cone bit.
Howard Hughes Sr.'s patent for an oilfield drill bit (1908)
Rupert Hughes
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Rupert Raleigh Hughes was an American novelist, film director, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, military officer, and music composer. He was the brother of Howard R. Hughes Sr. and uncle of billionaire H
Howard R. Hughes Sr.
…Hughes (1837–1926). Hughes's older sister Greta, better known by her stage name Jeanne Greta, was a grand opera and concert singer. His younger brother, Rupert Hughes, was a famed novelist and screenwriter. Another brother, Felix Jr., was a baritone opera singer. Hughes was a classic entrepreneur, trying and failing…
Hughes in 1935
Still from the American film Remembrance with Patsy Ruth Miller, Claude Gillingwater, and Cullen Landis
Rupert Hughes (far right) directing one of his stories, Goldwyn Studios, Culver City, circa 1920s
Rupert Hughes (left) with Director Herbert Brenon in 1917