Sentences with phrase «whale oil lamps»

For example, if you're writing Moby Dick (no kidding), you can include expanded notes about the history of whaling, including maps of routes to now obsolete hunting grounds, period advertisements for whale oil lamps, and other real - life elements that expand the reader's experience.

spelling) being naked inside with a small whale oil lamp for heating in the middle of subzero arctic temperatures.

Attorneys continue to navigate their marketing efforts with a blindfold and the equivalent of a whale oil lamp.

Not exact matches

Much of a sperm whale's head is occupied by the spermaceti organ, a huge fibrous cask containing a milky, waxy material that was highly prized as a lubricant and lamp oil, and which to Nantucket whalers looked like nothing more than gallons and gallons of semen — hence the name.

Kerosene refined from such petroleum helped displace the whale oil that lit lamps in the 19th century and led to the near extinction of many whale species.

Whaling Days in Maui In the early 19th century, whale oil was used to provide heat, in oil lamps for lighting, and powering equipment, while baleen strips...

Alongside the Turners, Hokanson has included: tools of the trade (a harpoon and oil lamps); brisk and all - but - abstract watercolor studies; an 1839 edition of The Natural History of the Sperm Whale by Thomas Beale (a book Turner was conversant with); and, yes, a copy of Moby Dick, from which is displayed an illustration of the great white whale by Rockwell Whale by Thomas Beale (a book Turner was conversant with); and, yes, a copy of Moby Dick, from which is displayed an illustration of the great white whale by Rockwell whale by Rockwell Kent.

Should Americans in the 19th century have conserved whale oil so there would be plenty for our lamps?

It started as early as the 1800s when fisherman reduced the whale population to use the blubber for lamp oil.

The whole — too much CO2 in the atmosphere will be a quaint little issue — like running out of whale oil for lamps.

Usually this happens as part of an economic restructuring, often related to new technology, as when whale oil was abandoned as a lamp fuel, as when farmers mechanized operations, or for that matter when the transition to agriculture occurred.