10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOGGLE IRON»
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1
American Studies in Black and White: Selected Essays, 1949-1989
Temple's device was, no doubt, a simple one, yet in the judgment of one historian
of whaling, it was not "until the toggle-iron was invented in this country . . . that
any radical change was made" in the technique of modern whaling.24 Temple ...
Sidney Kaplan, Allan D. Austin, 1996
2
Great Discoveries and Inventions by African-Americans: ...
It is known that other blacksmiths in the New Bedford area copied Temple's
Toggle Iron. It is also established from the whaling industry records that one
blacksmith in the area made some 30,000 toggle harpoons over a twenty year
period.
3
New Bedford's Civil War
By 1845 Temple had built a blacksmith shop on the Walnut Street Wharf where,
around 1848, he invented the “Temple Toggle Iron Headed Harpoon” that was
quickly adopted by most whalemen. Whaling historian Clifford W. Ashley credits ...
Earl F. Mulderink, Earl F. Mulderink, III, 2012
The principle of the whale harpoon or toggle-iron is similar, except that the pole is
not withdrawn, and the head, turning upon a pivot at its end, fastens the pole itself
securely to the fish, the harpoon-line being attached to some part of the pole.
5
Nuvuk, Point Barrow, Alaska: The Thule Cemetery and Ipiutak ...
This suggests a functional difference between the space within the trenches and
that without. Among the artifacts were a slate whaling harpoon end blade and a
bent iron Yankee toggle-iron (Figure 32). The toggle iron is of an early type which
...
6
The Whale Fishery and Its Appliances
James Temple Brown. Toggle-iron. Toggle-iron with loop twisted in the shank by
the actions of a wounded whale. Head, malleable cast iron; shank, wrought iron.
Length, 30^ inches. New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1882. 56248. Gift of Aiken ...
7
Markets in History: Economic Studies of the Past
The order of adoption ran about as follows: toggle iron (1848- 70), steel-head
lance (18457-70), shoulder gun (18557-80), darting gun (18657- 85?). From the
time when the diffusion of the toggle iron was clearly well under way to the time ...
David W. Galenson (red.), 1989
8
Bulletin of the United States National Museum
Toggle-iron with loop twisted in the shank by the actions of a wounded whale.
Head, malleable cast iron; shank, wrought iron. Length, 30$ inches. New Bedford
, Massachusetts, 1882. 56248. Gift of Aiken & Swift. (Manufactured by Luther
Cole, ...
Toggle-iron. Head and portion of shank of toggle-iron. Evidently intended for
striking sword-fish, porpoises, and black-fish. Head, steel, mortised. Shank,
wrought iron. Length, 10 inches. 56407. Gift of A. E. Crittenden. Toggle-iron.
Head and ...
10
The Language of Theatre
A toggle bar is a wooden strengthening batten fastened horizontally across aflat:
the toggle iron is the metal device which attaches it to a stile. It is hardly
surprising, given its function, that toggle turns out to be a nautical term (of
unknown ...
