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| Description | English: Whalemen's harpoons. (from NOAA's Historic Fisheries Collection) Fig. 1. Improved harpoon or toggle-iron generally in use [in 1887] Fig. 2 & 3: First form of toggle-iron made by Lewis Temple Fig. 4. One-flued harpoon with hinged toggle. Fig. 5. One-flued harpoon Fig. 6. Two-flued harpoon Fig. 7. Toggle-iron invented by Provincetown whaleman, "not now in use" [in 1887] |
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| Source | NOAA , http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/figb0195.htm |
| Author | Goode, George B., Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute |
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