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Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Hughes Main Library
Phone:
+1 864-242-5000

Hours:
Sunday2pm - 6pm
Monday9am - 9pm
Tuesday9am - 9pm
Wednesday9am - 9pm
Thursday9am - 9pm
Friday9am - 6pm
Saturday9am - 6pm


Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an influential figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by a worsening obsessive–compulsive disorder , chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness. As a maverick film tycoon, Hughes gained fame in Hollywood beginning in the late 1920s, when he produced big-budget and often controversial films such as The Racket , Hell's Angels , and Scarface . Later he controlled the RKO film studio. Hughes formed the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932, hiring numerous engineers and designers. He spent the rest of the 1930s and much of the 1940s setting multiple world air speed records and building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules . He acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines and later acquired Air West, renaming it Hughes Airwest. Hughes was included in Flying Magazine's list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation, ranked at No. 25. Today, his legacy is maintained through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Howard Hughes Corporation.
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