Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Influence Upon Health of Anthracite Coal, When Used as Fuel for Warming Dwelling-Houses: With Some Remarks Upon Special Evaporating Apparatus Sixty years ago anthracite coal was regarded all over the world as incombustible refuse. Its use in America dates from the period when supplies of English coal for the manufacturers of the Middle States were cut off by the war of 1812. Attention was then drawn to the anthracite deposits in Penn sylvania, and many vain attempts were made to use them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.