British Coal Market Research

Britain is rich in coal, she's also the first country take advantage of coal resources completing industrializing. Developed coal market promoted Britain's economic a lot.Different from manufacturing industry, coal is rooted in land, coal production factory without freedom of site. And coal itself is a kind of valuable commodity, high transportation costs limited coal market size. So in British coal market history, regional independence has always been there, "national coal market never happened." On the other hand, reduce the transportation loss, access to cheap coal to become the UK economy development power, coal mine coal transportation cost Lord reduce technical reform, for the purpose of bourgeois, in order to get cheap coal and coal road construction makes the whole British social benefit. Can say, the history of development of the coal market is British regional economic development and technical progress of history; Also trade to reduce the cost of trading, participants in the British economy ultimately drive the development history. These two points and jointly promote the development of the coal market, also indirectly contributed to Britain's industrial revolution.This paper is divided into three sections.The first part includes historical period from bud, coal market until the sixteenth century "wood" period. This period of coal demand British social production and living is the energy used in coal mine with charcoal primarily, mostly in the open the use of coal mines, mostly in the coal mine scope of within a few miles around. But some town has appeared in a small industrial use coal.The second section discusses the main domestic become Britain from coal energy after the mid-nineteenth century several major coal consumption industries steel, coal gas, steam transportation etc forming so far. Need explanation is, coal as the foundation, the development track of energy impossible and the industrial revolution synchronization, otherwise the industrial revolution in early will because energy shortage and unsustainable. This period of time is the golden age of British coal market, but also the most period of prosperity. Initially the steam engine for coal market service and canal, railway become the British industrial revolution of the booster, and coal from the initial main market of household and light industrial fields gradually changed to heavy industry for metallurgy, transportation primarily heavy industrial sectors.The third part are mainly described the 19th century to the twentieth century, this period of coal market coal suppliers and demanders have transformed, life and consumer goods used coal no longer occupies main share, industrial production especially electricity and steel become the main force coal consumption, as railway and remote steamboat differentiation of the commercialization, market by science and technology maximum bridged the. But coal market becomes a simple, participants focused on coal, power plant, coal gas company and steel such inner circle. The Times also witnessed the oil's rise, is coal economic rags transition period.