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In 1909 Howard Hughes JR’s father, Howard R. Hughes, Sr., invented a rotary bit for oil well drilling that made the family extremely wealthy. The younger Hughes early showed a talent for engineering, and he later studied at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and at the Rice Institute of Technology, Houston. During this time, both his mother (1922) and father (1924) died. Hughes quit school and took control of his father’s business, Hughes Tool Company, in Houston. By the time he sold the company in 1972, it had become a multibillion-dollar venture. This was one of his first tools, a mitre joint clamp that had two serrated wheels that pulled the pieces of wood together as wound in. It works very well and I have placed O rings on the wheels to avoid marking wood. Wood in image is just two 2”x2” off cuts handy at time. It’s 100 years old and I have not seen that design about today and surprisingly precise for cast iron. I bought this at an Antiques Fair for £12.00 and have only seen one other.

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