Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

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Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

intted States Bureau of Alines Fig. 97. Undercutting in a coal mine to make a borehole. CHAPTER TEN THE FUEL PRODUCTS Coat furnishes the strong muscles of a country. Human and animal muscles by themselves can accomplish only the little tasks. Without coal a country is a weakling; with it, a giant that can easily do the heaviest sort of work, such as drawing long trains of heavy cars, pro- pelling great steamships, driving the machinery of huge factories, and digging tunnels through mountains. Coal furnishes the power for the world’s work, and man furnishes the brain to guide it. The Chinese were perhaps the first to use coal. More than six centuries ago the famous traveler, Marco Polo, reported that in China he found people burning black stones which grew red and remained hot for a long time. England was the first country to use coal ex- tensively in her industries. There this mineral has furnished heat for more than four centuries and has been used in smelting iron for nearly two centuries. The United States was slow in mining coal even after deposits were found. because the forests furnished abundant cheap fuel. With 1293

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