Energy History | Baker Hughes — The Roller Bit Tested at Goose Creek, Then Built at Second and Girard
· 1908-12
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Energy History | Baker Hughes — The Roller Bit Tested at Goose Creek, Then Built at Second and Girard
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People treat Baker Hughes as a Houston and London contractor that always arrived with a directional-drilling truck.
The first book was a two-cone bit that could crush hard rock.
In December 1908 Howard R. Hughes Sr. and Walter B. Sharp formed Sharp-Hughes Tool Company in Houston to manufacture a roller cutter Hughes had designed.
On 10 August 1909 the United States issued Hughes a patent on the dual-cone bit.
Secret tests had already been run at Goose Creek, south of Houston, where the bit cut through formations that had stalled fish-tail tools.
The first plant was a rented twenty-by-forty-foot corner of the Houston Car Wheel and Machine Company on Washington Avenue.
By the mid-1910s manufacturing sat at Second and Girard, on ground that is now the University of Houston–Downtown campus beside Buffalo Bayou.
After Sharp died in 1912, Hughes bought the widow's half and renamed the firm Hughes Tool Company on 3 February 1915.
A larger works later opened on Polk Avenue and became one of Houston's biggest machine shops.
Carl Baker's casing-shoe company, founded in California in 1907, followed a separate path until Baker International and Hughes Tool merged in 1987 as Baker Hughes.
The mechanism that still names the firm is simple.
A rotating cone with teeth crushed rock instead of scraping it, so a rotary rig could keep going where a fishtail bit stopped.
Stand at One Main Street and you are on the bayou lot where that tool left a rented machine shop.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, University of Houston–Downtown / downtown Houston.
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