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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... period , it would be im- possible to obtain coal enough for all the wants of society -at least in this island . From the continual operation of these combined causes the reader will be prepared to credit the astonishing progress of coal ...
... period , it would be im- possible to obtain coal enough for all the wants of society -at least in this island . From the continual operation of these combined causes the reader will be prepared to credit the astonishing progress of coal ...
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... period approximates to the total annual extraction of the first year . Furthermore , it seems highly probable that under present causes our total coal extraction will in five years hence be at least one hundred and thirty millions of ...
... period approximates to the total annual extraction of the first year . Furthermore , it seems highly probable that under present causes our total coal extraction will in five years hence be at least one hundred and thirty millions of ...
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... period of scarcity and dearness would first be reached , This would diminish consumption and prolong duration ; but only by checking the prosperity of the country . The absolute exhaustion of coal is a stage which will probably never be ...
... period of scarcity and dearness would first be reached , This would diminish consumption and prolong duration ; but only by checking the prosperity of the country . The absolute exhaustion of coal is a stage which will probably never be ...
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... periods , was practicable ; and further , that human labour , daily and during ordinary periods , is limited by 100 ° of temperature as a fixed point , and then the air must be dry ; for in moist air he did not think men could endure ...
... periods , was practicable ; and further , that human labour , daily and during ordinary periods , is limited by 100 ° of temperature as a fixed point , and then the air must be dry ; for in moist air he did not think men could endure ...
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... period the balance should be turned in their favour , then the vast demands for coal will have stimulated a corre- sponding extension of coal - mining ; and the Americans coal fields of far wider extent than our own . The course of ...
... period the balance should be turned in their favour , then the vast demands for coal will have stimulated a corre- sponding extension of coal - mining ; and the Americans coal fields of far wider extent than our own . The course of ...
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