Uses of Petroleum

Initially, charcoal and wood were used a fuel source, but as those resources became scarce, coal became a necessity. As shown in Document 1, England was fortunate enough to have a readily available coal supply that other countries in Europe were not able to have. As England became industrialized, more coal was needed to fuel steam engines and furnaces. The development of factories and the improvement of the steam engine also increased the demand for coal. As a result, coal mines that were once mined at the surface, now got deeper and deeper, and there was too much water to safely get more coal. When the Newcomen engine was put into use at the coal mines, coal was put into the steam engine to pump more coal out. Similarly almost every other piece of technology in that time period used coal as the main fuel source so the need for coal skyrocketed. Document 4 explains how England had the natural conditions necessary to succeed such as coal, which is a major reason the Industrial Revolution started in England and not in any other

Trains and Steam Locomotives had a huge impact on the world when they’re were invented in the 1820’s. They allowed for large amounts of cargo to be transported and allowed for people to move quickly which led to many changes to the economy, ideas, and culture. The first steam engine was invented by a Scottish engineer named James Watt. While his invention was mostly used in cotton mills at the time it later was used for trains when the boilers in the engines improved. The first full-scale working locomotive was built in 1804 by Richard Trevithick. The earliest railways were built in Britain and expanded rapidly. In 1830 Britain had a total of 98 miles of railways but by 1860 they had a total of 10,433 miles. During this time the United States

Petroleum is created over millions of years from dead alagae that goes to the bottom of the ocean and is buried beneath the surface.

Coal discovery dates to the 1300s with the Hopi Natives. This would prove significant some five hundred years later when coal became the predominant source of power in the mid to late 1800s. This would prove even more significant when the Government started surveying the landscape for the best route for the Transcontinental Railroad in 1853. Upon completion of the research, one thing the scouts made clear was the presence of coal in Wyoming and some of the western states. To run supplies from the eastern states to the west they needed the presence of coal to be close and readily available for the coal fueled trains. This played a major role in the industrial revolution the United States was about the experience.

The first engines used in America were purchased from England. The first railroad built in the US was the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Construction started in July 1828 and it was built there because Baltimore was the 3rd largest state, and they didn’t have a canal for easy transportation. The railroad was built to help them compete with New York and the Erie Canal (“Early American Railroads”, web). There were more than 5 operating railroads by 1835 and would grow even more

The railroad was first developed in Great Britain. A man named GEORGE STEPHENSON successfully applied the steam technology of the day and created the world's first successful locomotive. The first engines used in the United States were purchased from the STEPHENSON WORKS in England. Even rails were largely imported from England until the Civil War. Americans who had visited England to see new STEAM LOCOMOTIVES were impressed that railroads dropped the cost of shipping by carriage by 60-70%.

In 1880 the Santa Fe Railroad came to town and the coal mining went large scale. The gold finds dwindled to none and now bigger companies moved in to develop large coal mine operations.

Coal has been around for 250 million years, but only has been used since the 1800’s first by trains and now for energy all around the world and many other things that people couldn't think of! Coal is a combustible sedimentary organic rock which is composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. It is formed from vegetation which has been consolidated between two other rock strata and altered by the combined effects of pressure and heat over millions of years to form coal seams. There are over 174,000 jobs in the U.S associated with coal and 83,000 of them are mining jobs, Coal miners have found many ways to extract coal from the ground which includes, surface mining, longwall mining, room and pillar mining, and underground mining. “Surface

The railways encourage development in several industries. The change from wood burning engines to coal created

Coal usage started growth in early 1800s when first coal mines started operating. Coal produce more heat per pound, being much more portable fuel. It passed

But coal wasn’t the only abundant natural resource. Iron was also being produced at a high rate, and iron was used for nearly every industrial machine from the steam engine to the railroad. In fact, the railroad allowed for faster transportation of goods and people than ever before as it was the first form of land transportation faster than a horse. The combination of large coal and iron supplies and easy, fast transport resulted in a constant supply of energy and materials for machinery. Thanks to this combination there were never any shortages and the Industrial Revolution was able to advance faster than it could have in any other

The transportation industry exploded with the inventions of automobiles and locomotives that pulled trains which carried millions of people to and from their destinations. As these modes of transportation increased, so did the mining and production of coal,

The idea of burning coal, is not a new one, nor is it recent that coal has been chosen as a fuel source since the 1700’s in England as it burned hotter and cleaner than anything else at the time, which caused it to find its way into steam

Coal had been in use far long before the 19th century, however, the arrival of the industrial revolution saw a boom in the demand for coal and as a result coal mining became an enormous and lucrative industry. Nonetheless, the equipment used in the early 19th century was still exceptionally primitive and working conditions were also very harsh.

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