Whale Hoist Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1862
name: label: patentee
content: Roys, Thomas W.
notes: label: Description
content: After some species of whales were killed, their carcasses sank. Other species, like the right whale, floated. A whale that sank represented a major loss to the whaleship crews, who had risked their lives to capture the creatures.
label: Description
content: To prevent this sort of loss and maximize a whaleship’s efficiency, Thomas Roys of the whaling port of Southampton, on Long Island, N.Y., patented an apparatus for “Raising Dead Whales From the Bottom of the Sea.” There is little evidence that many American whalers tried the device or that it found widespread use in the industry.
place: label: whaling port
content: United States: New York, Southampton
topic: label: used
content: Whaling
label: related event
content: Expansion and Reform
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content: Work and Industry: Fisheries
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Work
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content: Natural Resources
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content: Transportation
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content: On the Water exhibit
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: National Museum of American History. On the Water exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.332326
label: catalog number
content: 332326
label: accession number
content: 94380
label: patent number
content: 35476
objectType: label: Object Name
content: harpoon
label: Object Name
content: harpoon patent model
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 12 1/2 in x 2 in; 7.62 cm x 31.75 cm x 5.08 cm