Coal was the fuel that powered factories during the Industrial Revolution. Image caption, The Newcomen steam engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. The engine was commonly found in coal ...

“This was the industrial revolution, right here ... to generate heat, then steam, then electricity. Coal heated the homes, ran the trains and made the steel and cement. The first coal-fired ...

As the clock struck midnight on Monday, UK time, the birthplace of the industrial revolution ... Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power plant whirred away for the last time. Steam rose from the ...

On the distant fringe of the city, another new coal power plant is rising from the sand on the edge of the vast Ordos Desert at the massive Jinjie Industrial Park - where rows of factories turn ...