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Svend Foyn patented his grenade harpoon gun in 1870. He modified existing designs and utilized ideas developed by Erik Eriksen. It consisted of a cannon that fired a barbed explosive head harpoon. Aimed and fired, the harpoon barb would hook into the whale. A moment later an explosive charge in the head of the harpoon would inflict a mortal wound.
Harpoon cannon outside of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. A harpoon cannon is a whaling implement developed in the late 19th century and most used in the 20th century. It would be mounted on the bow of a whale catcher , where it could be easily aimed with a wide field of view at the target.
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A former executive at Twitter Inc, now called X Corp, has filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired after Elon Musk acquired the company for objecting to budget cuts that would prevent the company ...
Modern history of the company began in 1946 as harpoon cannon producer for the recovering Japanese whaling industry, expanding into firearms after the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951. Charles Daly Firearms of the United States imported Miroku over/under shotguns throughout the 1960s to early 1970s. Afterwards, Miroku found a new outlet for ...
The ongoing public spat between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban is getting increasingly heated on social media. In a pointed critique during an interview, Cuban lambasted ...
Up to 200 employees who went out of their way to show public loyalty to Musk fell victim to the social media platform’s latest cuts
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