Greene County Coal Book And Purchasers Official Guide Classic Reprint

Author : F. R. Wadleigh
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266243922
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book A Coal Manual for Salesmen, Buyers and Users (Classic Reprint) written by F. R. Wadleigh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Coal Manual for Salesmen, Buyers and Users Theophrastus, favorite pupil of Aristotle, in his book about stones, mentions earthy ones found in Liguria (modern Genoa) in Northern Italy, that kindled and burned like charcoal and were used by smiths. They were called Anthraces or charcoals, from their resemblance to the latter. The beginnings of the modern coal trade, however, are found during the 13th century, when records of a more general utilization and of a regular trade in coals appear, but the modern use of coal may be said to have begun with the powerful impulse given to the iron industry about 1836, at the beginning of the Victorian era, mainly by the introduction of the hot blast as applied to iron furnaces. Since that time the output of coal and the growing number of uses to which it or its derivatives are and have been put, have kept pace with population and civiliza tion, until now we not only get light, power and heat from coal but an ever increasing number of substances most necessary to our comfort and health, some of which had been obtained from natural sources, but many of which are new to us; beautiful dyes, delicate flavors, the fragrance of flowers, the most powerful drugs, material for modern explosives, antiseptics and disinfectants, roof ing material, road pavement and building material, oils of various kinds, fertilizers, besides many other substances, commercial uses for which have not yet been discovered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.