Gina Zubair
American History 1
Period 2
September 10, 2014
Andrew Carnegie, a Captain of Industry Andrew Carnegie was one of the most of the powerful men during the late 1800s, had created a steel industry, founded new technology to produce his product faster, and had built his empire starting from the very bottom. He was an American industrialist who gained a fortune in the steel industry, and afterwards became a philanthropist. As a captain of industry because he has done a great duty to shape our country to what it is now, by creating an empire that has built and urbanized our cities as well as philanthropic deeds. Carnegie had lived from 1835 to 1919 and was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. His parent’s names were Will and Margaret. Will was a handloom weaver, and Margaret, did sewing work for local shoemakers. In 1848, the Carnegie family moved to America into Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. After Andrew Carnegie had co founded a steel company in the earlier 1870s, near Pittsburgh, he had begun his empire that only became bigger. Over the next few decades, created a steel empire, maximizing profits and minimizing inefficiencies through ownership of factories, raw materials and transportation
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“"This went in well before the monumental limestone and marble buildings of Pennsylvania Avenue, Constitution Avenue. This was one of the first really beautiful public buildings," ( paul dickson author of The library in America). The library was beautiful not just in appearance. It was opened to everyone. Children, women, and all races were welcome inside. It was the only place downtown where African Americans remember being able to use the restrooms. During the Depression, D.C.'s Carnegie Library was called "the intellectual breadline. Above the doorway, carved in are the words “Science, Poetry,