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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>SCHEDULE 14A</B>



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(A) OF THE<BR>
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</B>



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Filed by the Registrant <FONT face="Wingdings">&#254;</FONT><BR>
Filed by a Party other than the Registrant <FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Check the appropriate box:

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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Preliminary Proxy Statement</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Confidential, for Use of the Commission Only (as permitted by Rule&nbsp;14a-6(e)(2))</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT face="Wingdings">&#111;</FONT>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Definitive Proxy Statement</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><FONT face="Wingdings">&#254;</FONT>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Definitive Additional Materials</DIV></TD>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 24pt"><B>Baker Hughes Incorporated</B>


<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; border-top:1px solid black">(Name of Registrant as Specified In Its Charter)</DIV>


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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; border-top:1px solid black">(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant)


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box):


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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">No fee required.<BR>
Fee computed on table below per Exchange Act Rules&nbsp;14a-6(i)(l) and 0-11.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">(1</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top">)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Title of each class of securities to which transaction applies:</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">(2</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top">)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Aggregate number of securities to which transaction applies:</DIV></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="top">(3</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top">)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Per unit price or other underlying value of transaction computed pursuant to
Exchange Act Rule&nbsp;0-11 (Set forth the amount on which the filing fee is calculated and
state how it was determined):</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">(4</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Proposed maximum aggregate value of transaction:</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">(5</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Total fee paid:</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Fee paid previously with preliminary materials:<BR>
Check box if any part of the fee is offset as provided by Exchange Act Rule
0-11(a)(2) and identify the filing for which the offsetting fee was paid previously.
Identify the previous filing by registration statement number, or the Form or
Schedule and the date of its filing.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">(1</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top">)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Amount Previously Paid:</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">(2</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Form, Schedule or Registration Statement No.:</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="top">(4</TD>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED</B>



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS</B>



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>April&nbsp;26, 2005</B>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">To the Stockholders of Baker Hughes Incorporated (the &#147;Company&#148;):



<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<B>The Company&#146;s Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders dated March&nbsp;14, 2005 stated that the
Annual Meeting would be held on April&nbsp;28, 2005 rather than the April&nbsp;26, 2005 meeting date set
forth in this notice. The Company has advanced the meeting date by two days because the Company
has determined the meeting must be initially convened and adjourned no later than April&nbsp;26, 2005 to
preserve the February&nbsp;25, 2005 record date fixed by the Board of Directors.</B>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<B>Despite the advance in the Annual Meeting date, the Company intends to hold the Annual Meeting
on April&nbsp;28, 2005, as previously set forth in the Company&#146;s notice of March&nbsp;14, 2005 and
accompanying proxy materials. The Company will do so by </B><B><I>initially convening </I></B><B>the Annual Meeting on
April&nbsp;26, 2005 and then </B><B><I>adjourning </I></B><B>the meeting until April&nbsp;28, 2005, at 9:00 a.m., Central Daylight
Time, (as originally scheduled) for the purpose of considering and voting on the proposals set
forth herein.</B>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Company will be held at the offices of the
Company, 3900 Essex Lane, Suite&nbsp;210, Houston, Texas on Tuesday, April&nbsp;26, 2005, at 9:00 a.m.,
Central Daylight Time, and then be adjourned to the same time and place on Thursday, April&nbsp;28,
2005. The purpose of the meeting is to consider and vote on:


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    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Election of four directors to serve for three-year terms;</TD>
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<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD width="3%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Ratification of Deloitte &#038; Touche LLP as the Company&#146;s Independent Auditor for Fiscal
Year 2005;</TD>
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    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Proposal to amend Articles ELEVENTH and THIRTEENTH of the Company&#146;s Restated
Certificate of Incorporation (the text of such amendments set forth in Annex A to this
notice) to declassify the Board of Directors and provide for the annual election of all
directors;</TD>
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    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD width="3%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">4.&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Stockholder Proposal regarding majority votes protocol; and</TD>
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    <TD width="1%" nowrap align="left">5.&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>Such other business as may properly come before the meeting and any reconvened meeting
after an adjournment thereof.</TD>
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Information describing such Proposals was included in the Company&#146;s Notice dated March&nbsp;14,
2005, which was previously mailed to you and is available online at
www.bakerhughes.com/investor/information/arlist.htm.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Board of Directors has fixed February&nbsp;25, 2005 as the record date for determining the
stockholders of the Company entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the meeting and any reconvened
meeting after an adjournment thereof, and only holders of Common Stock of the Company of record at
the close of business on that date will be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, that meeting or a
reconvened meeting after an adjournment.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 50%">By order of the Board of Directors,<BR>
/s/ Sandra E. Alford<BR>
Sandra E. Alford<BR>
<I>Corporate Secretary</I>

<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Houston, Texas<BR>
April&nbsp;15, 2005


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY RETURNED A PROXY OR DESIGNATED A PROXY BY TELEPHONE OR THE INTERNET, SUCH
PROXY WILL BE USED WHEN THE MEETING IS HELD ON APRIL 28, 2005, SO THAT NO FURTHER ACTION NEED BE
TAKEN PURSUANT TO THIS NOTICE.</B>



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<P align="right" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>ANNEX A</B>



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT<BR>
TO<BR>
RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION<BR>
OF BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED



<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><HR size="1" noshade color="#000000">


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">The Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended as follows:




<P align="left" style="margin-left:3%; font-size: 10pt">ARTICLE ELEVENTH of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is hereby
amended in its entirety to read as follows:



<P align="left" style="margin-left:3%; font-size: 10pt">ELEVENTH: The directors of the Corporation shall serve for a term of one year ending on the
date of the annual meeting of stockholders following the annual meeting at which the
director was elected.



<P align="left" style="margin-left:3%; font-size: 10pt">The number of directors shall be fixed from time to time by the bylaws of the Corporation or
an amendment thereof duly adopted by the Board of Directors or by the stockholders acting in
accordance with Article&nbsp;SEVENTH herein.



<P align="left" style="margin-left:3%; font-size: 10pt">Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this Article, each director shall serve
until his or her successor is elected and qualified or until his death, retirement,
resignation or removal.



<P align="left" style="margin-left:3%; font-size: 10pt">ARTICLE THIRTEENTH is hereby amended by replacing the reference to &#147;ELEVENTH (dealing with
the classification and number of directors)&#148; with &#147;ELEVENTH (dealing with the term and
number of directors).



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