Question

During the industrial revolution, iron and steel industry was set up near coal mines,

Answer 1

Answer:

• industrial development depends upon the availability of raw materials.
• fortunately there was no dearth of two raw materials in England.
• coal and iron where available in abundance and side by side.
• the coal fields where larger and closer to important harbours.
• for transporting coal and iron these harbours helped England to develop the industry.
• iron industry depended on coal for melting. show iron industry developed near the coal fields only.

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Answer 2

Answer:

The Industrial Revolution could not have developed without coal and iron .

•Coal was needed to make steam engines run and to produce iron.

•At the beginning of the 18 th century iron makers found a way to extract pure iron out of iron ore.

•They used coke, which was purer than coal and burned hotter, to melt the ore.