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Show 10f3 April Energy 2002 Archeologists trace coal back to caveman period Coal is the most plentiful fuel the fossil family and it has the the most longest and, varied history Coal has been used for heating since the cave man. in Archeologists have also found e l idencethat the Romans in md used it in the second and 1. rd cent lines, 1()()A I) and 200 A Kn-g- i ) In I he 700s, he Knglish 'ond th.it coal could produce a lui that hurned cleaner and hot- 0 r than wood charcoal. However, it was the overwhelming nixd for energy to mil the new technologies invented duringthe Industrial Revolution that provided the real opportunity for coal to fill the fossil fuels first role as a dominant worldwide supplier of energy. In North America, the Ilopi Indians used coal for cooking, heating and baking clay pottery duringthe 1300s in what is now 1 l I the United States Southwest. Coal was later rediscovered in the U.S. by explorers in 1673. 1 lowever, commercial coal mines did not start operation until the 1740s in Virginia. The Industrial Revolution played a major role in expanding the use of coal. A man named James Watt invented the steam engine, which made it possible for machines to do work previously done by humans. Watt used coal to make the steam to run the engine. In the 1800s, one of the primary uses of coal was to fuel steam engines used to power locomotives. During the first half of the tlu Industrial Revolution spread to the United States. Steamships and railroads were becoming the chief forms of transportation. The steamships and steam powered railroads used coal to fuel the lMOOs, steam-powere- d boilers. In the second half of the 1800s, more uses for coal were found. During the Civil War, weap- ons factories were beginning to use coal. By 1875, coke replaced charcoal as the primary fhel for iron blast furnaces to make steel. The burning of coal to generate electricity is a relative newcomer in the long history of the fossil fuel. Standard workers show off a huge block of coal re- from the mine. Coal is the most plentiful fuel It was in the 1880s when coal was first used to generate electricity for homes and factories. Long after homes were being lighted by electricity produced by in the fossil family and it has the longest and, coal, many private residents continued to have furnaces for heating. The furnaces were fired by the fossil fuel and the stoves for cook ing in some were fueled by coal. Today, people not only in the United States, but throughout the world continue to consume significant amounts of coal. Magnuson Lumber Has All Your Building Needs Building Materials Lumber Fuller OBrien Paint Craft & Paint Accessories Plumbing Supplies Bricks and Blocks Cement Power Tools Hardware Baler Twine Fishing Supplies Rainbird Lawn & Garden & PVC Sprinkling Supplies Lifetime Guaranteed Parts PRICE TRADING CO. PARTS PLUS 33 N. Carbon Ave. in Price Phone 637-423- 0 or 637-317- 6 CONVENIENT STORESIDE PARKING Magnuson Lumber would like to thank all of Emery & Carbon County for their support. nnson 495 E. Main, Phone ber per-triev- haps, the most varied history. Fax Castle Dale 381-257- 4 381 -- 2571 |