Andrew Carnegie's life seemed touched by magic. He embodied the American dream: the immigrant who went from rags to riches, the self-made man who became a captain of industry, the king of steel. "Carnegie was more than most people," says Owen Dudley Edwards, historian at the University of Edinburgh.Andrew Carnegie grew up with dreams to own a big company and be entrepreneur. Carnegie was a great man and one of the best monopoly owner ever and he deserved the title of richest man in America. In my opinion, Andrew Carnegie is one of the biggest contributors to the Progressive Era and the Modern Day. Andrew Carnegie’s birthplace, Dunfermline, is Scotland's historic medieval capital. Becoming famous for producing fine linen,the town fell …show more content…
Morgan inWorks include (attribution)Fairground Street Bridge (built 1895), spans ICG RR yard on Fairground St. Vicksburg, MS (Keystone Bridge Co.),Hannibal Bridge or Kansas City Bridge, spanned the Missouri River at Kansas City, MO, (constructed 1867-9) for the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad and many more.The Keystone company was one of the 28 companies absorbed into the American Bridge Company in 1900. The company advertised its services for building steel, wrought iron, wooden railway and road bridges. It held a patent for wrought iron bridges and supplied wrought iron columns for buildings.Although, The sale earned him more than $200 million. Later in life, Carnegie decided to spend the rest of his days helping others. While he begun his philanthropic work years earlier by building libraries and making donations, Carnegie expanded his efforts in the early 20th …show more content…
Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education and scientific research. Of these libraries, 1,679 were built in the United States. Carnegie spent over $55 million of his wealth on libraries alone, and he is often referred to as the “Patron Saint of Libraries.” It is said that Carnegie had two main reasons for supporting libraries. First, he believed that in America, anyone with access to books and to learn could educate him- or herself and be successful, as he had been. Second, Carnegie, an immigrant, felt America’s newcomers needed to acquire cultural knowledge of the country, which a library would help make