1791 – An article regarding harpoon whale guns from “Papers in Mechanicks” describing a list of rewards proffered to expert harpoon-gunners for their achievements in 1790 and, most importantly, to Charles Moore, the inventor of an improved harpoon-gun that made those achievements possible
Disbound. This 12-page disbound extract is from “Papers in Mechanicks,” Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Vol. 9 (1791), pages 159-168 and Plate IV. It contains reports of “Rewards offered for taking Wales by the Gun-Harpoon, in the year..... More