Artist/Maker
Sowle & Carsley
Title
mincing machine
Mediumwood, steel, copper
Dimensions53 × 34 × 43 in. (134.6 × 86.4 × 109.2 cm)
Object number00.175.719
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionA plaque on the machine reads: Mincing by hand was laborious and time consuming, requiring one man to cut and another to handle the sliced blubber. With this machine, one man could perform both operations with the turn of the hand crank. A labor-saving device in theory, in practice, the machine did not work well enough to gain wide acceptance.On View
Not on view
Church, Albert Cook *
1745-1925
Circa 1905
1820
ca. 1876
Swift, Clement Nye (1846-1918)
1876-1878
