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Show 1 013 April Energy 2002 Archeologists trace coal back to caveman period Coal is the must plentiful fuel in the frail family and it has the longest and, perhaps, the most varied history. Coal has been used for heating since the cave man. Archeologists have also found evidence that the Romans in England used it in the second and third centuries, 100AD.and200 The Industrial Revolution played a mqjor role in expanding the use of coal. Aman 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 fiiel steam engines used to power locomotives. During the first half of the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution AD. In the 1700s, the English found that coal could produce a foul that burned cleaner and hotter than wood charcoal. However, it was the over- spread to the United States. d whelming need for energy to run Steamships and the new technologies invented railroads were becoming the chief forms of transportation. The during the Industrial Revolution steam-powere- that provided the real opportu- nity for coal to fill the fossil fuel's first role as a dominant worldwide supplier of energy In North America, the Hopi Indians used coal for cooking; heating and bakingday pottery during the 1300a in what is now the United States Southwest Coal was later rediscovered in the USl by explorers in 1673. However; commercial coal mines did not start operation until the 1740s in Virginia. steamships and steam powered railroads used coal to fuel the boilers. In the second half ofthe 1800s, more uses for coal were found. During the Civil Wax; weap- ons factories were beginning to use coaL By 1875, coke replaced charcoal as the primary fiiel for iron blastfurnaces to make steel. The burning of coal to generate electricity is a relative newcomer in the kmg 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 elec- tricity for homee and factories, Long after homes were being lighted by electricity produced by the fossil family and it has the longest and, haps, the most varied history. in wwmanyprtvnjrnimtaTifairinn- tinned to have furnaces for heat-ing: The flimacee were fired by the fhflflial and fliartwwnafhr wink- - ing in nmn mnyt fimlaH hy mat Tbday people not onfy in the United States, but throughout the world continue to consume . aignifinant awimwita ihiq! Magnuson Lumber Has All Your Building Needs Building Materials Lumber - Hardware Baler Twine OBrien Paint Craft & Paint Accessories Fuller Fishing Supplies Rainbird Lawn & Garden Plumbing Supplies &PVC Bricks and Blocks Cement Power Tools O' Lifetime Guaranteed Parts PRICE TRADING CO. PARTSPLUS 33 N. Carbon Ave. in Price Phone 637-423- 0 or 637-3- 1 76 CONVENIENT STORESIDE PARKING Sprinkfing Supplies Spring Fix Up for Interior & Exterior Magnuaon Lumber would like to thank all of Emery Carbon County for their support. t 495 E. Main, Phone Fhx per-triev- ed Castle Dale 381-25- 74 381 -- 2571 |