Harpoon gun
Date
1793
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
John Bell (1747 - 1798, British) , Army officer
Object type
Library reference
31094
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 130mm
width (print): 210mm
width (print): 210mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Two figures of a harpoon gun for whaling. Figure 1 shows the whole apparatus in firing position; figure 2 a section of the harpoon and an ash wood cylinder, made to fit the barrel of the gun.
The accompanying text notes that: ‘A model of the Gun and Harpoon complete is reserved in the Society’s Repository, made to a scale of six inches to a foot’.
Plate 5 illustrating the paper ‘…a Gun and Harpoon on a new construction, for taking Whales…a Bounty of Twenty Guineas voted to him for his improvements…’, Transactions of the Society, instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce… [Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts] v.11, (1793) pp.185-192.
Inscribed above: ‘Mr. Bell’s improved Gun and Harpoon. Plate 5.’
John Bell (1747-1798) British army officer. Bell was a sergeant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, based at Woolwich, at the time of this invention. He was later promoted to lieutenant.
The accompanying text notes that: ‘A model of the Gun and Harpoon complete is reserved in the Society’s Repository, made to a scale of six inches to a foot’.
Plate 5 illustrating the paper ‘…a Gun and Harpoon on a new construction, for taking Whales…a Bounty of Twenty Guineas voted to him for his improvements…’, Transactions of the Society, instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce… [Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts] v.11, (1793) pp.185-192.
Inscribed above: ‘Mr. Bell’s improved Gun and Harpoon. Plate 5.’
John Bell (1747-1798) British army officer. Bell was a sergeant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, based at Woolwich, at the time of this invention. He was later promoted to lieutenant.
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