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Prior to the latter half of the 18th century, windmills and watermills provided the energy needed for industry such as milling flour, sawing wood or pumping water, and burning wood or peat provided domestic heat.
The widescale use of fossil fuels, coal at first and petroleum later, to fire steam engines enabled the Industrial Revolution.
The invention of the internal combustion engine and its use in automobiles and trucks greatly increased the demand for gasoline and diesel oil, both made from fossil fuels.
The other major use for fossil fuels is in generating electricity and as feedstock for the petrochemical industry.
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