Jones J. Clifford. Energy supply in the earlier industrial era

Bookboon, 2010. — 32 p. — ISBN: 978-87-7681-546-2.This book commences discussion at the industrial revolution and attempts to unfold the chronology of energy supply between then and the First World War. Coal features throughout the book and there is also detailed coverage of the early years of the oil industry. Political and social factors and the interplay of those with fuel demand are emphasised.The early late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
The Period 1810-1870
Enter Oil
A glimpse into the ‘future’
Concluding remarksPostscript
Endnotes.