8 sentences with 'coal'

Example sentences and phrases with the word coal and other words derived from it.

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« All these inventions could be produced in gigantic quantities thanks to the use of coal and, later, oil energy. »
« In the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, the raw materials needed for production had been in Europe itself: deposits of coal and iron ore. »
« So he bought coal and iron ore mines, and a plantation in Brazil where he could grow rubber: Fordlandia, in a clearing in the jungle along the Amazon. »
« Starting in Britain in the mid-18th century, Europeans learned to exploit fossil fuels in the form of coal to harness previously unimaginable amounts of energy. »
« The "mass society" inaugurated by the industrial revolution came of age in the last decades of the 19th century, a century after it had begun in the coal mines and textile mills of northern England. »
« After a power struggle among the leading members of the communist party, Stalin's successor emerged: Nikita Khrushchev, a former coal miner and engineer who rose through the party's ranks to become its leader. »
« Moreover, Britain had abundant coal deposits concentrated in the north of England. In a very fortunate coincidence for British industry, the north of England in the 18th century was the heart of the existing British textile industry, which became the key commercial force in the early period of industrialisation. »
« The coal deposits of northern England form part of an underground band of coal reaching into Belgium, eastern France and western Germany. This stretch of land would become the industrial heartland of Europe - you can draw a line on a map of Western Europe from England stretching across the English Channel towards the Alps and trace most of the industrial centres of Europe in the first half of the 19th century. »

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