Hughes Tool Company
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Hughes Tool Company was an American manufacturer of drill bits. Founded in 1908, it was merged into Baker Hughes Incorporated in 1987.
The manufacturing operations of the company at 2nd and Girard Streets in Houston, Texas, where it was located in the 1910s. Today, the site of the building is on the campus of University of Houston–Downtown.
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 Tool Company
…Founded in 1908, it was merged into Baker Hughes Incorporated in 1987. The company was established in December 1908 as Sharp-Hughes Tool Company when Howard R. Hughes Sr. patented a roller cutter bit that dramatically improved the rotary drilling process for oil drilling rigs. He partnered with longtime business associate…
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)