 Most of the experiments failed and though Shoemaker was nearly run out of town and called an “Imposter”, Mellon and Bishop of Delaware County successfully used it in their rolling mill.Then other rolling mills in the area also successfully used the fuel and thus a large industrial market was born

Then the Schuylkill Navigation Company was chartered in 1815 to build a series of navigation improvements in the Schuylkill River, nearly as early as the much more ambitious Erie Canal and well ahead of other key canals fueling the Industrial Revolution, such as the Delaware and Hudson, the Lehigh, the Chesapeake and Ohio, Delaware and Raritan and Morris canals.The originators of the project did not count upon the coal trade to promote the success of the undertaking.