Excerpt from The Fuels of the Household: Their Origin, Composition and Uses In discussing these fuels and their uses on following pages, the mental scene of all the processes and utilities which are mentioned is the household. The households of our country are so distinctively American that the subject of this essay is naturally devoted to that type. The historical range of that type is short, because the political history in connection with which it was devel Oped is short compared with that of other countries. And yet, eventful as that short political history has been, the household affairs which have pertained to the use of fuels have been quite as eventful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.