The performance is about to begin. The concert hall is a grand sight with crystal chandeliers, exquisite artworks, lavish carpets, and decadent embellishments. As the audience takes their seats, people of prestige and stature, they know they are in a place that epitomizes wealth. This luxurious concert hall that exhibits the finest sophistication in the world is known as Carnegie Hall. Iconic performers such as The Philharmonic Orchestra and____ have played on this royal stage. This magnificent architectural masterpiece of world renounced performances was constructed by Andrew Carnegie. However, as opulent as this historic hall seems, it is an insignificant contribution to his overall legacy. Most individuals only know Carnegie for this structural attribution, while in reality he built an engineering empire that forever changed America. Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline Scotland. His parents were William and Margaret Carnegie. William was a handloom weaver, Margaret was one of Andrews’s biggest influences. She taught Andrew to respect the poor and the importance of helping others. His parents were Calvinists and believed that every class of society played a role in the prosperity of a nation. Being part of the lower class themselves, it helped Carnegie …show more content…
With the use of his steel, Carnegie started to create structures, including bridges, railroads, and buildings. Carnegie expanded the Keystone Company gaining new contracts to build major bridges. One of his fist successful projects was the Brooklyn Bridge. It soared over the East River, linking Manhattan with Brooklyn. This magnificent structure was 272 feet high, with buttressed towers made of solid granite. This masterpiece of engineering lead to new contracts for the Carnegie Company. These include new bridges in other countries, including Mexico and South
Andrew Carnegie helped build the American steel industry. He was born in 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland, to Margaret and Will Carnegie. The Carnegies are one of the many working-class families in Dunfermline. The family left the poverty of Scotland for the possibilities in America in 1848 and settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As he got older, he moved rapidly through a series of jobs with the Western Union and the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1865, he resigned from the railroad to establish his own business and eventually organized the Carnegie Steel Company, which launched the steel industry in Pittsburgh.
Andrew Carnegie came over to this country in 1848, with his family in the hopes of finding a better life for themselves. At age 14, Carnegie became a courier in a telegraph office. Later, he became involved with the railroad industry and soon was Superintendent of the railroad in Pittsburgh. By the age of 30 he had an annual income of $50,000. Carnegie then left the Pennsylvania Railroad and started concentrating on steel. He would eventually open the Carnegie Steel Company. He was introduced to a new process called the Bessemer process for his steel. At first Carnegie was not sure of this new process but took a chance and adopted it into his company.
Growing up as a young boy in Scotland, Carnegie's family was not very wealthy. They immigrated to America where Carnegie went from working as a bobbin boy, making $1.20 per hour, to making millions of dollars later in his life. Carnegie did not become wealthy by unethical means, as a Robber Baron would. Instead he worked very hard and wise to get to where he was during that time. Andrew Carnegie came from "rags to riches" in his lifetime and it paid off.
Andrew carnegie was an obvious Captain of Industry. He was born into a family that was very poor, his father was a weaver that nothing big was expected to come from little Andrew. However, soon came the Industrial revolution, and with that, came more machinery. So much machinery in fact, that Carnegie’s dad got replaced and fired from his weaving job, because of these machines. Soon, his father found himself begging for jobs to be able to help his family. The family became so poor in fact that Carnegie's mother had to start working to help support the family.Carnegie once said "I began to learn what poverty meant."
In the beginning of this episode we are shown that Andrew Carnegie’s mentor (Tom Scott) is dead. It then takes us back to when Carnegie was a boy and worked for Scott. Then helps him advance through the ranks. At age 24 he is manager of the company. He and Scott then want to expand railroads west. Scott then asks him to build a bridge. He has a hard time but four years later manages to build the bridge across the Mississippi River. After the bridge is built Carnegie has a hard time getting people to walk across the bridge. People were afraid they had never seen anything like this before. So Carnegie throws a parade and has a elephant led the parade showing that it is stable. Then to find out people want railroads to be replaced with steel which
There are several men who were considered to have built america because of their major contributions to the country. One of them is andrew carnegie. Andrew carnegie is famous for his large part in the 19th century steel industry. Along with being a remarkable philanthropist, he was a big enthusiast in making the world a better place. He is known for his large donations to educational, cultural and scientific organizations. Starting out as a bobbin boy in a textile mill, carnegie worked his way up the economic ladder by becoming a delivery boy and then an operator to earn more money for him and his family. when he was 18, he was hired by Thomas A Scott, of the pennsylvania railroad. While leading a successful business life, carnegie began to
Andrew Carnegie believes in a system based on principles and responsibility. The system is Individualism and when everyone strives towards the same goals the system is fair and prosperous. Carnegie’s essay is his attempt to show people a way to reach an accommodation between individualism and fairness. This system can only work if everyone knows and participates in his or her responsibilities. I will discuss Carnegie’s thesis, his arguments and the possible results of his goals.
At the age of 13 Carnegie moved from Scotland to the United States, and got a job working in a factory that same year. In 1853 he was hired by the Pennsylvania Railroad where he worked as an assistant for Thomas Scott. Scott taught Carnegie all about the railroads, the stock market, and how to become a successful businessman. While working for the railroad Carnegie began making investments in oil and received a good amount of money because of it. In 1865 he left the railroad company to focus on his interest in steel. He and Scott would remain close friends, and Scott even assisted Carnegie in his plans to build a bridge across the Mississippi River. Many had attempted this task and failed, but Carnegie was determined to succeed. He Started the Keystone Bridge Company, and made plans to build the bridge with iron and steel rather than wood. The bridge was a success, and Carnegie went on to produce more and more steel; he called his business the Carnegie Steel Company. By 1889 Carnegie had a monopoly of steel. Many believe that at the time of his retirement in 1901, Andrew Carnegie was the richest man in the world.
In the documents titled, William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism and Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth, Sumner and Carnegie both analyze their perspective on the idea on “social darwinism.” To begin with, both documents argue differently about wealth, poverty and their consequences. Sumner is a supporter of social darwinism. In the aspects of wealth and poverty he believes that the wealthy are those with more capital and rewards from nature, while the poor are “those who have inherited disease and depraved appetites, or have been brought up in vice and ignorance, or have themselves yielded to vice, extravagance, idleness, and imprudence” (Sumner, 36). The consequences of Sumner’s views on wealth and poverty is that they both contribute to the idea of inequality and how it is not likely for the poor to be of equal status with the wealthy. Furthermore, Carnegie views wealth and poverty as a reciprocative relation. He does not necessarily state that the wealthy and poor are equal, but he believes that the wealthy are the ones who “should use their wisdom, experiences, and wealth as stewards for the poor” (textbook, 489). Ultimately, the consequences of
He considered himself a Scottish Immigrant and also made a huge impact on the business aspect during the Gilded Age. Andrew built the world’s largest most up to date steel mill. After this huge creation, he became the best-known manufacturer during the late 1800’s. He was one to pioneer new strategies to seize markets and consolidate power. During his business career, he used a strategy called vertical integration, which did exactly that. Vertical integration was a tactic that would bring stability to the steel empire. Carnegie integrated by buying out all the companies needed to produce his steel. Carnegie eventually sold his company to the most famous banker, J.P. Morgan, making Carnegie a fortune and one of the richest men. In the book the author states, “from competition to consolidation”, and I believe that Andrew Carnegie was king of this. He truly used his marketing strategies to shrink his competition while consolidating the factory types.
Born in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie will soon aid in shaping the industrialization and urbanization movement in the 19th and 20th centuries. His early life leads up to his innovations and the becoming of being the wealthiest American of his time.
Andrew Carnegie was an Entrepreneur and a Philanthropist. He was born in Dunfermline, Scotland in the United Kingdom. He was born on November 25, 1835. He passed away on August 11, 1919 at the age of 84 in Lenox, Massachusetts. Andrew had little or no formal education, but he grew up in a family that had beliefs in knowing the importance of books and learning. His father was handloom weaver by trade. Andrew Carnegie was best known for being a self-made steel tycoon and he was one of the wealthiest 19th century Unites States businessmen. He donated a great deal of his money to help the expansion of the New York Public Library.
Andrew Carnegie was born the year of 1835 in Scotland. When he was still a child his family moved to America. He first started working in
It is through his effort of creating Americas largest steel industry that he become one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in the 19th century. Since the Industrial Revolution began to replace hand made products most of the workers lost their job positions and Andrew’s father was one of those people. His mother then began to support the family by opening up a small shop. Andrew Carnegie notices the hard work his parents are doing to support his family; it is then that he realizes what the true meaning of poverty really meant. Andrew who comes from a family that believes hard work is the key to success that in the future he begins to help out the “poor”. Andrew Carnegie who met Thomas A. Scott (business person, railroad executive, and industrialist) becomes really close that he manages to become his right hand man. After the Civil War
Andrew Carnegie a Scotland born immigrant, traveled to America when he was in his preteens. He worked at a cotton factory delivering buttons and he worked hard and never gave up or slacked on hard work. According to James Henretta, in his book America: A Concise History, “Arriving from Scotland as a poor twelve-year-old in 1848, Carnegie found work as an errand boy for the Pennsylvania railroad and rapidly scaled the managerial ladder.” James Henretta, America: A Concise History (New York: Bedfort/St. Martins, 2002), 498. His hard work eventually paid off when he eventually became a superintendent at the young age of 24. A Colonel named James Anderson opened his library to young working boys to help educate themselves. According to Andrew