Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie’s life embodies the true American rags to riches story. Andrew Carnegie was the son of a man with many struggles to find jobs. Due to his father’s struggles, Andrew Carnegie began to work at many different jobs; he worked in two factories before he found a stable job at a railroad company. Andrew Carnegie rose through the ranks at the company until becoming the secretary for the superintendent. His many trips to England brought his eye to steel which would later become an essential product for cities to grow. He created his own steel company in 1872 in the U.S. which made steel using the Bessemer steelmaking process from England which made steel efficiently allowing his company to expand. Carnegie’s steel company …show more content…
The Triangle Factory Fire happened on the afternoon of March 25, 1911. The cause of the disastrous fire was a discarded cigarette on the eighth floor. The flames and the fire grew and spread quickly throughout the factory causing panic among the workers. Many workers escaped down a narrow staircase and a lone elevator. The firemen were also inadequate to do their job because their fire hose only reached the third floor. Also, the firemen failed to save many workers jumping from the windows. A man trapped on the tenth floor of the factory describes the scene of firemen trying to save workers during a later interview, “They pulled out a net -- 6 to 7 feet wide. Six-seven firemen kept the net up. When a man took it on himself to jump he would go right through the net and hit the sidewalk” (http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/primary/survivorInterviews/JosephFlecher.html). In the weeks following the fire, many people protested in the streets for justice against the two owners and for better working conditions. The two owners were indicted for manslaughter but later acquitted. However, the huge protests and cries for better working conditions led the New York government to create the factory Investigating Commission. The commission inspected many factories and interviewed the survivors of factor disasters to create thirty new health and safety laws for factories. The disastrous Triangle Factory Fire
Andrew Carnegie’s life embodies the true American rags to riches story. Andrew Carnegie was the son of a man with many struggles to find jobs. Due to his father’s struggles, Andrew Carnegie began to work at many different jobs; he worked in two factories before he found a stable job at a railroad company. Andrew Carnegie rose through the ranks at the company until becoming the secretary for the superintendent. His many trips to England brought his eye to steel which would later become an essential product for cities to grow. He created his own steel company in 1872 in the U.S. which made steel using the Bessemer steelmaking process from England which made steel efficiently allowing his company to expand. Carnegie’s steel company …show more content…
The Triangle Factory Fire happened on the afternoon of March 25, 1911. The cause of the disastrous fire was a discarded cigarette on the eighth floor. The flames and the fire grew and spread quickly throughout the factory causing panic among the workers. Many workers escaped down a narrow staircase and a lone elevator. The firemen were also inadequate to do their job because their fire hose only reached the third floor. Also, the firemen failed to save many workers jumping from the windows. A man trapped on the tenth floor of the factory describes the scene of firemen trying to save workers during a later interview, “They pulled out a net -- 6 to 7 feet wide. Six-seven firemen kept the net up. When a man took it on himself to jump he would go right through the net and hit the sidewalk” (http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/primary/survivorInterviews/JosephFlecher.html). In the weeks following the fire, many people protested in the streets for justice against the two owners and for better working conditions. The two owners were indicted for manslaughter but later acquitted. However, the huge protests and cries for better working conditions led the New York government to create the factory Investigating Commission. The commission inspected many factories and interviewed the survivors of factor disasters to create thirty new health and safety laws for factories. The disastrous Triangle Factory Fire