Technology and the built world

Hugh David Hibbitt

Hugh David Hibbitt is an American computational mechanician who co-founded the ABAQUS finite element software company and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.

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Hugh Herr

Hugh Herr is an American bioengineer and double amputee who leads bionic leg prosthesis research at MIT, having lost both legs to frostbite while climbing in 1982.

Hugh Latimer Dryden

Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898–1965) was an American physicist and aerodynamicist who directed the NACA from 1947 and served as NASA's first deputy administrator until his death in 1965.

Hugh Rudnick is a Chilean electrical engineer and emeritus professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, known for work on electricity market deregulation and regulation across Latin America.

Hugh S. Knowles

Hugh S. Knowles (1904–1988) was an American acoustical engineer who founded Knowles Electronics in 1946, held over 50 patents, and pioneered the miniaturization of hearing-aid microphones and receivers.

Hugh W. Hillhouse

Hugh W. Hillhouse is an American chemical engineer and Rehnberg Chair Professor at the University of Washington, known for molecular-ink perovskite and CZTS solar cell research.

Hugh Wallace (architect)

Hugh Wallace (1956–2025) was an Irish architect, interior designer, and television presenter who judged RTÉ's Home of the Year from 2015 and co-founded Douglas Wallace Architects in Dublin.

Hughes Aircraft Company

Hughes Aircraft Company, also called Hughes Aircraft, was an American aerospace and defense electronics company founded by Howard Hughes in 1932, sold to General Motors in 1985.

Hughes H-1 Racer

The Hughes H-1 Racer, also known as the Hughes 1B, was a racing plane Howard Hughes flew to a 352 mph world landplane speed record in 1935.

Hughes H-4 Hercules

The Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the Spruce Goose, was the largest wooden aircraft ever built, a wooden flying boat that flew once in Long Beach Harbor in 1947.

Hughes Helicopters

Hughes Helicopters was an American helicopter manufacturer at Culver City, California, maker of the OH-6A Cayuse and the AH-64 Apache, acquired by McDonnell Douglas in 1984.

Hughes OH-6 Cayuse

The Hughes OH-6 Cayuse is a single-engine light observation helicopter developed by Hughes for the US Army and flown extensively as a scout in the Vietnam War.

Hughes TH-55 Osage

The Hughes TH-55 Osage, designated TH-55A, is a two-seat piston-powered training helicopter that served as the United States Army's primary helicopter trainer from 1964 to 1988, training over 60,000 pilots.

Hughes XF-11

The Hughes XF-11 was a prototype American reconnaissance aircraft built by Hughes Aircraft, whose first prototype crashed on its 1946 maiden flight, nearly killing Howard Hughes.

HughesNet

HughesNet is a satellite internet service operated by Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar company, launched in 1996 as one-way DirecPC and now running on the JUPITER Ka-band satellite fleet.

Hugo Junkers

Hugo Junkers was a German engineer and industrialist who built the first practical all-metal aircraft and founded a major aircraft manufacturer in Dessau, active from 1915.

Hugo RAS

Hugo RAS is Medtronic's modular multi-port soft-tissue surgical robot, used in Europe since 2021 and cleared by the FDA in December 2025 for adult urologic procedures.

Huguenot Tunnel

The Huguenot Tunnel is a 3.9 km toll road tunnel on the N1 in South Africa's Western Cape, opened in 1988 and the longest road tunnel in the country.

Hui Ying Yang

Hui Ying Yang is a materials scientist who became a professor at the National University of Singapore in 2025, known for sodium-ion and desalination batteries.

Huilong Surface Mine

The Huilong Surface Mine is an open-pit coal mine in Jungar Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, whose capacity was raised from 3.0 to 6.0 Mt/a in 2021.

Huineng Changtan power station

Huineng Changtan power station (汇能集团长滩电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Junggar Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, owned by Inner Mongolia Huineng Group, with four 660 MW units completed in 2023 and 2026.

Huisman Equipment

Huisman Equipment is a Dutch manufacturer of heavy construction equipment such as offshore cranes, pipelay systems, and winches, headquartered in Schiedam and founded in 1929.

Huizhou 21-1 Oil and Gas Field

Huizhou 21-1 (惠州21-1) is an offshore oil and gas field in the South China Sea, first produced in 1990 as China's first million-tonne offshore oilfield.

Huizhou hydroelectric plant

The Huizhou hydroelectric plant (惠州抽水蓄能电站) is a pumped-storage station in Boluo County, Huizhou, Guangdong, China, with 2,400 MW of capacity and full commissioning at the end of May 2011.

Huizhou LNG Terminal

Huizhou LNG Terminal, also known as 惠州LNG接收站, is a liquefied natural gas import terminal in Huizhou, Guangdong, China, opened in 2024 with a capacity of 4 million tonnes per year.

Hujianshan Oil Field

Hujianshan Oil Field (胡尖山) is an onshore oil field in Dingbian County, Yulin, Shaanxi, China, in the Ordos Basin, discovered in 2001 and producing since 2006.

HULC (exoskeleton)

The Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) is an untethered, electro-hydraulic military exoskeleton developed by Berkeley Bionics and licensed to Lockheed Martin, unveiled in 2009 to let soldiers carry 200 pounds.

Hull (watercraft)

The hull, also called the ship's hull, is the watertight body of a ship or boat, displacing water for buoyancy and housing cargo and crew.

Hull classification symbol

A hull classification symbol, also called a hull designation symbol, is the letter code for a US Navy ship's type, such as CVN or DDG, which with a hull number forms the ship's official designation.