What impact did industrialist have on the gilded age. Well they were the impact. Industrialist provide the people of the gilded age with the jobs, money, and an easier life. During the gilded age many things were industrialized. Andrew Carnegie made the production of steel ninety-six times faster. what was done in one day was done in fifteen minutes. Vanderbilt went from a young boy fighting in the streets to the richest man alive owning almost all the railroads in america. John D. Rockefeller went from his dad stealing his money to him owning ninety percent of all the oil in america. Scott spent most of his career battling a man everybody in his business was scared of Cornelius Condor Vanderbilt. It was men like this that shaped the Gilded
