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"Between 1750 and 1760, an intricate interlocking of circumstances set coal to rule the world, not through new discoveries of coal itself but rather through improvements in spinning and weaving machinery which made possible the massing of large numbers of spinners and weavers for large-scale production. . . . It was at the call of the master weavers and spinners of England that the steam engine was set to run the machines; then to furnish a blast so that coal might be used to cheapen the smelting of iron and steel so that more machines might be made; then to pump out the deepening mines so that more and more power to keep the machines running might be won. Steam raising was coal's first great play for power and it is the work through which it still holds its industrial supremacy. Between 1800 and 1900 coal-driven engines multiplied until . . . they were producing energy equivalent to seventy million horse-power; during the first twenty years of the twentieth century, their power-producing capacity more than doubled. So coal wrought the industrial revolution, the greatest revolution in all human history, which transformed social and economic life as radically as the geographical revolution transformed the earth's surface.” Robert W. Bruère of the Bureau of Industrial Research in America, The Coming of Coal, 1922

a) Identify ONE specific example of the environmental influences and consequences of the Industrial Revolution that would support the author's argument.

b) Explain ONE specific example of how coal helped power new inventions that would support the author's argument.

c) Explain ONE specific example of how mining coal helped transform social and economic life that would support the author’s argument.

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