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Coal and the Industrial Revolution
Coal Consumption (1850-1900)
Annotation
This graph, developed in 2003, shows the speed with which coal, particularly bituminous coal, took over as the central American energy source at the end of the 20th century.
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Citation
Schurr, Sam H. and Bruce C. Netschert. Energy in the American Economy, 1850-1975. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1960, 36-37.