Coal and the Industrial Revolution, 1700–1869

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The Dynamics of Resource-Based Economic Development: Evidence from Australia and Norway (2013, background): “…late eighteenth century provided for the easy availability of low cost coal and iron ore necessary for the early industrialisation of Britain focussed on resource intensive industries such as iron and steel production and engineering (Wrigley 1988; Pollard 1982; Landes 2003; Clark & Jacks 2007).”
The Macroeconomic Aggregates for England, 1209-2008 (2009, background): “To estimate returns from coal mines earlier than 1842 I use Clark and Jacks (2007), which estimates by decade from the 1730s on coal output, pithead prices, coal ground rents, and the share of capital returns in output prices, which through the 1730s-1860s averaged 20%.”
The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions (2011, unknown): “…power technology in the eighteenth century indicates that even without coal, energy-saving technological progress was feasible, and even that without coal Britain would have had experienced an Industrial Revolution, albeit one that would have a somewhat different dynamic (Clark and Jacks, 2007).”