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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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