The Mystic Seaport Museum's new show uses blubber hooks, whale foetuses, scrimshaw and a giant mural to recount how the whale ...

A whale that beached itself on Hilton Head Island ... Spermaceti was once used in oil lamps, lubricants and candles, making sperm whales a primary target for commercial whaling between 1800 ...

It’s possible this fanciful story was apocryphal, but the whale carcass cottage industry that soon emerged was not. While whales had long been hunted for their valuable oil—it powered lamps ...

which was previously used in oil lamps and candles. Image caption, Whale disentanglement teams are trying to free the whale They are a deep-diving species so it is unusual to see them in the ...

There were no obvious external wounds on the whale, and IFAW officials have anchored ... after in the whaling days of yore for its use in oil lamps, lubricants and candles. According to the ...

To the characters in In the Heart of the Sea, the world ran on whale oil, which was used in soap, oiling engines, and lamps.

Normally, whale skeletons are depleted of this oil through natural processes when ... The oil from skeletons like this was not used to illuminate the lamps of the world during the high days ...

The discovery “meant whale oil was no longer needed to make candles. The introduction of vegetable oil, steel bone corsets, gas lamps and eventually electric lights in 1879 all contributed to ...

Like whale blubber, oil as a dominant source of ... then strained into barrels to be used in everything from oil lamps to industrial lubricants. This was the bloody process that brought light ...

The lamp is driven by oil - originally, it was whale oil, but we don't use that anymore, so it's vegetable oil now,' he said. 'Lighting the lamp is pretty unique and it requires a bit of ...