Sir Hugh Plat (1552 to 1608) was an English writer on agriculture and inventor, the son of a London brewer, known for The Jewell House of Art and Nature in 1594 and for his work on gardening, Floraes Paradise, in 1608. In 1603 he published a tract on an invention of cheap fuel, coal mixed with clay and other substances and kneaded into balls, which he presented as a way to sweeten and multiply sea coal. Richard Gosling reissued an account of the device in 1628 and developed it further in 1644. James I knighted Plat at Greenwich in 1605 in consideration of his services as an inventor. His fuel balls are an early English attempt to stretch scarce domestic fuel.
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Hugh Plat was born in the spring of 1552
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Plat was knighted by James I at Greenwich on 22 May 1605.
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coal mixed with clay and other substances, and kneaded into balls
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