Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 808
eved that these stores will supply the world for many thousandyears. Seeing, then, that our supply of coal has a limit, and that at the presentincreasing rate of consumption, the chief source of the wealth of GreatBritain must necessarily be exhausted in a few more centuries, it behovesus to turn… … FlG. 344.— The Fireside. sumption of coal is enormous. This is especially the case in its domesticuse, where probably nineteen-twentieths of the heat produced is absolutelythrown away—sent off from the earth to warm the stars. In Englandpeople look upon the wide open fireplace as the image and type…
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