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Coal as a Necessary Condition for the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was fundamentally enabled by a transition from land-constrained energy sources, such as wood, to the concentrated, subterranean energy of coal. This shift was a crucial prerequisite for the era's transformative economic growth, as coal provided an abundance of power that was not limited by the annual productivity of the land. The adoption of coal is therefore considered a necessary condition for the scale of industrialization that occurred.
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