Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes (1905–1976) was an American businessman, aviator, engineer and film producer who advanced American aviation. Born in Texas, he inherited his father's Hughes Tool Company as a teenager and used its income to pursue filmmaking and aircraft design. In 1932 he founded the Hughes Aircraft Company, and in 1935 he set a world landplane speed record in the H-1 racer, which he had helped design. His turning point as an aviator came in 1938, when he and his crew flew around the world in a record time of about ninety-one hours, returning to a ticker-tape parade in New York. He later built the H-4 Hercules flying boat, which had the largest wingspan of any aircraft of its time, and acquired a controlling interest in Trans World Airlines. In 1953 he founded the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, now one of the world's leading supporters of biomedical research.
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Builders of Modern American Industry
Thomas Edison turned invention into an industry at his Menlo Park laboratory. Henry Ford, who once worked as an engineer for an Edison electric company and became Edison's lifelong friend, introduced the moving assembly line in 1913 to build the Model T. Milton Hershey made milk chocolate affordable and founded a school for orphaned children. Ray Kroc expanded McDonald's through franchising, and Howard Hughes set aviation records and built Hughes Aircraft.
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