- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Tables in the Text
- Appendices of Statistical Information
- New Introduction
- Preface
- Part One: The Traditional Whaling Trades, 1604-1914
- Chapter 1 Northern Adventures and the Spitsbergen Trade, c. 1604-1670
- Chapter 2 Lost Hopes and Expensive Failures, c. 1670-1750
- Chapter 3 The Rise of the Greenland Trade, 1750-1783
- Chapter 4 The Boom in the Northern Fishery, 1783-c. 1808
- Chapter 5 Expansion South of the Arctic Seas, c. 1776-c. 1808
- Chapter 6 Decline in the North in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 7 Expansion and Failure of the Southern Fishery c. 1808-1840
- Chapter 8 The End of the Northern Fishery in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Part Two: The Modern Whaling Trade, 1904-1963
- Chapter 9 New Whaling Techniques
- Chapter 10 New Whaling Areas
- Chapter 11 Advances in Oil Technology
- Chapter 12 Expanding Fleets and the New Fishing Grounds, 1919-1920
- Chapter 13 Crisis and Contraction, 1929-1932
- Chapter 14 Regulated Recklessness, 1932-1939
- Chapter 15 The Final Fling, 1945-1963
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Select Bibliography
- Addional Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 11 Advances in Oil Technology
Chapter 11 Advances in Oil Technology
- Chapter:
- (p.161) Chapter 11 Advances in Oil Technology
- Source:
- The British Whaling Trade
- Author(s):
Gordon Jackson
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
The rapid expansion of whaling in the decade before the First World War occurred because, after a century in which whale oil had been gradually ousted from its traditional uses, modern science gave it a new lease of life. Whale oil creased to be an elementary product, fit only for burning and other lowly uses, and became, under the influence of chemical technology, a multi-purpose raw material for modern industry. As a consequence whaling was faced with quite unprecedented demands for oil (output, for instance, rose from 47,387 tons in 1909/1910 to 134,000 in 1913/1914)...
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Tables in the Text
- Appendices of Statistical Information
- New Introduction
- Preface
- Part One: The Traditional Whaling Trades, 1604-1914
- Chapter 1 Northern Adventures and the Spitsbergen Trade, c. 1604-1670
- Chapter 2 Lost Hopes and Expensive Failures, c. 1670-1750
- Chapter 3 The Rise of the Greenland Trade, 1750-1783
- Chapter 4 The Boom in the Northern Fishery, 1783-c. 1808
- Chapter 5 Expansion South of the Arctic Seas, c. 1776-c. 1808
- Chapter 6 Decline in the North in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 7 Expansion and Failure of the Southern Fishery c. 1808-1840
- Chapter 8 The End of the Northern Fishery in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Part Two: The Modern Whaling Trade, 1904-1963
- Chapter 9 New Whaling Techniques
- Chapter 10 New Whaling Areas
- Chapter 11 Advances in Oil Technology
- Chapter 12 Expanding Fleets and the New Fishing Grounds, 1919-1920
- Chapter 13 Crisis and Contraction, 1929-1932
- Chapter 14 Regulated Recklessness, 1932-1939
- Chapter 15 The Final Fling, 1945-1963
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Select Bibliography
- Addional Bibliography
- Index
