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Photograph of worker in Hughes Machine Shop, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s |
The Hughes Laboratory machine shop is devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool and joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and field testing. In connection with the latter, the shop is equipped to... |
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Photograph of employee in Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop, Houston, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s |
The Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop is devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and field testing. In connection with the latter, the shop is equipped to manufacture... |
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Photograph of the interior of the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, circa 1917 |
Interior of the Hughes Tool Company, at Second and Girard Streets in Houston, Texas. Shown is the lab where the trench mining drill was developed. |
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Photograph of new atomic-hydrogen welding process, Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, circa 1929 |
Transcribed from press release attached to back of photo: "PENETRATES EARTH 16,000 FEET A surface approaching the hardness of the diamond is applied by a new atomic-hydrogen welding process to the teeth of a rock bit drill at the Hughes... |
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Photograph of new machine shop for Research, Product and Metallurgical engineering departments, circa 1924 |
Transcribed from press release attached to photograph: "LABORATORY MACHINE SHOP SPEEDS PRODUCT RESEARCH The Hughes Laboratory machine shop is devote to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and... |
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Photograph of a worker at Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s |
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... |
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Photograph of Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop, Houston, Texas, circa 1940s-1950s |
Men and women in the Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop are devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and field testing. In connection with the latter, the shop... |
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Photograph of Hughes Tool Company Derrick, Houston Texas, circa 1940s-1950s |
Transcribed from press release: "HUGHES TEST DERRICK This 118-foot field-size oil derrick tower above a block-long laboratory in Houston, Texas, where the Hughes Tool Company simulates every drilling condition in the world in order to produce tough, long-lasting drill bits... |
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and others at Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, July 30, 1938 |
Howard Hughes, N.E. Boehm, and an unidentified man examining machinery in the Hughes Tool Company plant. |