Andrew Carnegie was one of the best inventors who ever lived. He created one of the biggest steel companies in the world and he found new ways to produce steel in quicker ways. According to Alvin Harlow, he started off living in Scotland and he had a rough home life.(pg. 2) They didn’t have a lot of money and the living conditions were not good. Although Andrew had little formal education, he grew up in a family that believed in book and learning so he was getting more experience at home than he was in school. He remembers the first time he saw a map. His father was showing him and it was a map of America. Andrew said, “Nevertheless I remember it”, “And it’s just about the first thing that I do remember.” (Harlow pg. 1) His father was
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“It will pay me $1.20 a week,” he told his mother and father, thinking the amount seemed larger because it would be paid in American money.(Shippen pg. 42) The hours were from six in the morning to six o’clock at night. Andrew worked diligently, and before long the manage sent for him telling him that he would be advanced. He would now be working in the basement tending the engine and the boiler, which was a big responsibility for a twelve year-old boy. His pay increased to $1.65 a week, and the additional forty-five cents made the Carnegie’s very pleased. One day he was with his uncle, David Brooks, and Mr. Brooks. Mr. Brooks was the manager of the Pittsburgh telegraph office. Andrew was going to go see Mr. Brooks the next morning to discuss the job. Mr. Brooks were pay $2.50 a week, but Andrew’s father was doubtful about the job. His mother on the other hand saw in the new job because it would release him from the cellar he had been working at and coming home day after day being sick and covered in on and having nightmares about the job. Andrew was finally meeting …show more content…
107-108) They all had to play a huge part if this was going to work. Their very first steel mill they built, not in Pittsburgh, but in Braddock where the Monongahela and Ohio River met. Everything around them was slowly becoming ruins because everything was closing. Andrew was wondering how anybody was even going to know about their steel mill because it was only coming about and everything was closing and there were hungry people roaming the streets. Carnegie eventually built the Carnegie steel company and he made a fortune off of it. Over the years, he built a number of steel plants. By 1982, his steel company grew into the huge Carnegie Steel Company. Then in 1901, he sold his company for nearly $500 million dollars to J. Pierpont Morgan after he had accumulated a huge sum of money. (Shippen pg. 156 and Pellow pg. 88) The company renamed it the U.S. Steel Corporation. As for Andrew he didn’t know what to do with all of the money he had. He didn’t believe that the money actually belonged to him. Carnegie started putting in libraries and only a small few actually had his name. “I am now giving away libraries at the rate of two or three a day.”(Shippen pg. 160) For over twenty years he did this and in 1919 it was said that he built
“It will pay me $1.20 a week,” he told his mother and father, thinking the amount seemed larger because it would be paid in American money.(Shippen pg. 42) The hours were from six in the morning to six o’clock at night. Andrew worked diligently, and before long the manage sent for him telling him that he would be advanced. He would now be working in the basement tending the engine and the boiler, which was a big responsibility for a twelve year-old boy. His pay increased to $1.65 a week, and the additional forty-five cents made the Carnegie’s very pleased. One day he was with his uncle, David Brooks, and Mr. Brooks. Mr. Brooks was the manager of the Pittsburgh telegraph office. Andrew was going to go see Mr. Brooks the next morning to discuss the job. Mr. Brooks were pay $2.50 a week, but Andrew’s father was doubtful about the job. His mother on the other hand saw in the new job because it would release him from the cellar he had been working at and coming home day after day being sick and covered in on and having nightmares about the job. Andrew was finally meeting …show more content…
107-108) They all had to play a huge part if this was going to work. Their very first steel mill they built, not in Pittsburgh, but in Braddock where the Monongahela and Ohio River met. Everything around them was slowly becoming ruins because everything was closing. Andrew was wondering how anybody was even going to know about their steel mill because it was only coming about and everything was closing and there were hungry people roaming the streets. Carnegie eventually built the Carnegie steel company and he made a fortune off of it. Over the years, he built a number of steel plants. By 1982, his steel company grew into the huge Carnegie Steel Company. Then in 1901, he sold his company for nearly $500 million dollars to J. Pierpont Morgan after he had accumulated a huge sum of money. (Shippen pg. 156 and Pellow pg. 88) The company renamed it the U.S. Steel Corporation. As for Andrew he didn’t know what to do with all of the money he had. He didn’t believe that the money actually belonged to him. Carnegie started putting in libraries and only a small few actually had his name. “I am now giving away libraries at the rate of two or three a day.”(Shippen pg. 160) For over twenty years he did this and in 1919 it was said that he built