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Though he grew up in a wealthy household, Howard Hughes Jr. had difficulty focusing on school and changed schools often. Rather than sitting in a classroom, Hughes preferred to learn by tinkering with mechanical things. For instance, when his mother forbade him from having a motorcycle, he built one by building a motor and adding it to his bicycle. Hughes was a loner in his youth; with one notable exception, Hughes never really had any friends.
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Howard Hughes Jr. was arguably the most secretive, unconventional and self-destructive man ever to win fame in Southern California’s two glamour industries - movies and aviation. When Hughes Jr. was four years old, his father patented a rotary drill bit with 166 cutting edges that penetrated thick rock, revolutionizing oil drilling worldwide. He grew up an indifferent student with a liking for mathematics, flying and things mechanical. He audited math and engineering classes at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena and later at the Rice Institute of Technology in Houston. Orphaned in 1924, the 18-year-old Hughes took control of his father’s Hughes Tool Company in Houston - an estate valued at almost $900,000. Although shy and retiring, Hughes became enamored with the motion picture industry and moved to Los Angeles in 1925.
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Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was a pioneering aviator, engineer, industrialist and film producer. He was widely known as a playboy and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He is famous for setting multiple world air-speed records; building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules airplanes; producing Hell's Angels and The Outlaw; and, for his debilitating and eccentric behavior later in life.
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In 1924, 19-year-old Howard R. Hughes, Jr., inherited the majority share of the Hughes Tool Company and quickly bought his relatives' shares to gain control. A year later he wrote a will calling for the creation of a research institution 'the objects and purposes of which shall be the prosecution of scientific research. [It] shall be devoted to the search for and development of the highest scientific methods for the prevention and treatment of diseases.' It would be 25 years before Hughes took any specific steps toward that goal.
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Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was arguably one of the most enigmatic personalities of 20th century America, if not the world. And, thanks to his father’s invention that revolutionized the oil industry, Hughes had more than enough money to indulge his fancies and his fantasies. He is probably best remembered for building the world’s largest airplane, the Spruce Goose.
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Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (1905-1976) was arguably the most secretive and self-destructive man ever to win fame in Southern California’s two glamour industries --- movies and aviation. Hughes was certainly an original, and to many he represented the ultimate unconventional man.
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