Hughes Tool Company

Hughes Tool Company
IndustryDrilling, Manufacturing
Founded1908
FounderHoward R. Hughes Sr.
Defunct1987
FateMerged with Baker International
SuccessorBaker Hughes
HeadquartersTexas,
United States
Key people
Howard Hughes
ProductsDrill bits
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.
A February 1914 advertisement for the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company in Fuel Oil Journal.

Hughes Tool Company was an American manufacturer of drill bits. Founded in 1908,[1] it was merged into Baker Hughes Incorporated in 1987.

  1. ^ Botson, Michael R. (2005). Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 9781603446143.