Andrew Carnegie's Mentor

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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

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