When did man first use coal as a fuel?
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Coal has a very long and varied history. Some historians believe that coal was first used commercially in China. There are reports that a mine in northeastern China provided coal for smelting copper and for casting coins around 1000 BC.
One of the earliest known references to coal was made by the Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, who referred to a charcoal like rock.
Coal was used in Britain during the Bronze Age (2-3000 years BCE), where it has been detected as forming part of the composition of funeral pyres.
Roman historians describe coal as a heating source of last resort in Britannia.
The earliest use of coal in the Americas was by the Aztecs. They used coal not only for fire, but as ornaments as well.
When the first pyromaniac found out it was flammable.
Actually finding that wood burns and forms a charcoal when done, people found they could still burn the charcoals as heat source. So since wood was a fuel so was charcoal. Then finding coal as a likewise form made it possible to correlate the two.
Man first used coal about 3000 thousands of years ago, ancient chinese writings tell us the chinese knew of a black rock that burned, and in one part of their country where wood was scarce they would dig out this black rock to use on their fires. There is popular belief that even before this early man may have accidentaly discovered coal, when the rocks that they built their fires upon would burn.
becoz it was easily available,as wood was easily available.
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