The Story of a Piece of Coal - What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes

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Title: The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes
Author: Edward A. Martin
Release Date: June 28, 2004 [EBook #12762]
Language: English
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THE STORY OF A PIECE OF COAL
WHAT IT IS, WHENCE IT COMES, AND WHITHER IT GOES
BY EDWARD A. MARTIN, F.G.S.
1896
PREFACE.
The knowledge of the marvels which a piece of coal possesses within itself, and which in obedience to processes of
man's invention it is always willing to exhibit to an observant enquirer, is not so widespread, perhaps, as it should be, and
the aim of this little book, this record of one page of geological history, has been to bring together the principal facts and
wonders connected with it into the focus of a few pages, where, side by side, would be found the record of its vegetable
and mineral history, its discovery and early use, its bearings on the great fog-problem, its useful illuminating gas and oils,
the question of the possible exhaustion of British supplies, and other important and interesting ...