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

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 ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — New Bedford was once the city that lit the world, exporting vast quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s. Workers packed the docks, unloading casks of oil ...

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 ...

New Bedford was once the city that lit the world, exporting vast quantities of whale oil for lamps in the early 1800s. Workers packed the docks, unloading casks of oil that had been extracted at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — New Bedford ...