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Howard Robard Hughes Sr. (September 9, 1869 – January 14, 1924) 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.
Jan 14, 2020 · HOUSTON – Meet Howard Robard Hughes Sr., the man that changed the oil industry. Born in Lancaster, Missouri and raised in Keokuk, Iowa, Hughes would follow his father steps in becoming a...
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist, and pilot. He was best known during his lifetime as one of the richest and most influential people in the world.
Mar 4, 2024 · Explore the history of Howard Hughes Sr., inventor of the two-cone roller bit, in Part 1 of this two-part series highlighting the Hughes family legacy in the oil and gas industry.
Jun 1, 2016 · Howard Hughes Sr. and Walter Sharp secretly test the first roller cone bit at Goose Creek. 1909 Hughes patents the bit, which revolutionizes drilling by penetrating deeper, harder rock.
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This bit’s ancestor, the two-cone rotary rock drill bit, was invented by Howard Robard Hughes, Sr., an Iowa boy who drifted to southeast Texas in the wake of the Spindletop discovery and started...
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Mar 8, 2019 · Howard Hughes Sr., 1912. A true entrepreneur, Hughes engaged in a variety of business practices most of them in mining before eventually capitalizing on the Spindletop oil discovery in Beaumont, Texas, January 1901.
