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Excerpt from The Armour Engineer, Vol. 3: The Semi-Annual Technical Publication of the Student Body of Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illionis
The earliest record on'the briquetting of coal was suggested in a pamphlet by Sir Hugh Pratt in 1594. The first satisfactory briquetting machine was built in France in 1842 by M. Marsais, and since that time, the industry has gone steadily forward in all the European countries.
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