Coal being added to a blast furnace at Govan Iron Works, Glasgow, c1880. Coal was the fuel that powered factories during the Industrial Revolution ... well into the 20th century - in 1950 ...

But the outcrops of coal in this area meant it was only a matter of time before the area’s resources were exploited; by the end of the nineteenth-century coal pits ... particularly during the peak of ...

In the late 18th century, the U.S. was primarily an agricultural nation reliant on imports for manufactured goods. Early ...