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Photograph of a drill bit at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s

Information

Date
1950 to 1959
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."
Digital ID
whh000429
Physical Identifier
0321_0453
Permalink
http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d12z12w8v
Details
Subject
Factories
Drilling and boring machinery
Time Period
1950s (1950 - 1959)
Resource Type
Image
Material Type
photographs
photographic prints
Source
Hughes microbit for testing full-size bits, approximately 1950-1959
Digital Project
Welcome Home, Howard
Citation

whh000429. Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs, 1916-1997. PH-00321. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d12z12w8v

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Standardized Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Digital Provenance
Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room
Date Digitized
2012-09-29
Extent
4814 x 5767 pixels
8.023 x 9.612 inches
83,287,894 bytes
Language

English

Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
Format
image/tiff