On Coal at Home and Abroad: With Relation to Consumption, Cost, Demand, and Supply and Other Inquiries of Present Interest; Being Three Articles Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, with an Appendix |
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... for all steam purposes in manufactures and navigation . Extended steam navigation , steam machinery , steam power appearing in numerous new modes ; heating , lighting , cooking , the fashioning 8 COAL AT HOME AND ABROAD .
... for all steam purposes in manufactures and navigation . Extended steam navigation , steam machinery , steam power appearing in numerous new modes ; heating , lighting , cooking , the fashioning 8 COAL AT HOME AND ABROAD .
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... heating , lighting , cooking , the fashioning of most articles of luxury as well as of necessity , all depend upon coal as the prime motive power . In addition to the reasons for a rise already stated , another strongly operative cause ...
... heating , lighting , cooking , the fashioning of most articles of luxury as well as of necessity , all depend upon coal as the prime motive power . In addition to the reasons for a rise already stated , another strongly operative cause ...
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... heating and cooking , for street and house gas , and for various manufacturing purposes , while the same or similar restrictions of supply prevail - conceive that this issue may be realised , and then who will predict the result ? Coal ...
... heating and cooking , for street and house gas , and for various manufacturing purposes , while the same or similar restrictions of supply prevail - conceive that this issue may be realised , and then who will predict the result ? Coal ...
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... heat . The extreme abundance and cheapness of coal had made this country the worst provided in the world in its domestic arrangements for warming and cooking . The same amount of warmth may be obtained at one - fifth the expense of fuel ...
... heat . The extreme abundance and cheapness of coal had made this country the worst provided in the world in its domestic arrangements for warming and cooking . The same amount of warmth may be obtained at one - fifth the expense of fuel ...
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... heat of our blood is 98 ° , and fever heat commences at 100 ° , and the extreme limit of fever heat may be taken at 112 ° . Dr. Thudicum , a physician who has specially investigated this subject , has concluded from experiments on his ...
... heat of our blood is 98 ° , and fever heat commences at 100 ° , and the extreme limit of fever heat may be taken at 112 ° . Dr. Thudicum , a physician who has specially investigated this subject , has concluded from experiments on his ...
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