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in their rolling mill at the Falls of the Schuylkill River (after much failed experimentation with burning anthracite) at some point between 1812 and 1815. Judge Jesse Fell is claimed to be the first person to burn anthracite for the purposes of residential heating in the USA in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 11 February 1808. Judge Fell used an open grate in his fireplace to burn anthracite, as an experiment to prove

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