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    of 1915 there were more than 250,000 tracks. The railroad demand steel to complete its project which led to a boom in the steel industry. Sir Henry Bessemer invented the way to convert large quantities of iron into steel using hot hair, but Andrew Carnegie monopolized the industry. He used vertical integration to dominate the making of steel. Petroleum was used as a machine lubricant and a source of illumination. However, in 1855, Professor Benjamin Silliman discovered the use of kerosene (a…

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    add to his already millions of dollars. And he made the passenger and freight service trains in between staten island and new york city. Plus he even donated his best ship to the union navy, And he donated $100 million dollars to the vanderbilt university which he built. Also he was very…

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    In this episode of “The Men Who Built America” we see the rise and fall of Cornelius “The Commodore” Vanderbilt and the rise of John D. Rockefeller. This episode focuses on how both of these titans became what the were. After the Civil War, Vanderbilt saw the opportunity that the railroads possessed in transportation and shipping, he capitalized on that by investing everything he owned into the railroads and eventually owning up to 40% of all the railroads in the United States. It also…

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    Smith Falls Public Library

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    Introduction: The purpose of this assignment is to make an analysis of current services and programs to offer suggestions for improvement. This data will hopefully be used as a helpful and easy way to those reviewing the suggestions for the Smiths Falls Public Library. The community is a small area surrounded nature and a lovely view of its bodies of water, this includes a waterfall. Smith falls community location is near Queen Street and Brockville Street. With the well-known Rideau River…

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    Carnegie: Robber Baron and Captain of Industry On November 25, 1835, Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland to a poor family. When he was 13, his family moved to the U.S. As a young child, he went to go work at a railroad as a assistant and a messenger for Tom Scott, one of the owners on the railroad. On a quest to build a bridge across the mississippi, he came upon a new steel refining process. After taking many loans, and using most of his money, he build a new factory using this new process,…

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    The Men Who Built America Episode 1 starts 5 Days after the Civil War, which was known as the bloodiest conflict with 6,000 deaths adding one of the greatest, Abraham Lincoln. This episode was about how the railroads had come together. The railroads started with Cornelius Vanderbilt. He began his journey starting with a single ferry that had later on become many ships. His ships were used to transport goods. Vanderbilt later on in life then decided to sell all of ships and invest in railroads.…

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    Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25th, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. Sixty six years later, he would own the most enormous steel corporation in the world and become the richest man of his time. He started as a poor Scottish boy earning $1.20 a week working in a factory but was able to build one of the most successful industries in history. He is a captain of industry for three reasons. First off, his business, the Carnegie Steel Company, dominated the American scene by revolutionizing steel…

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    The United States of America is one of the highly developed nations around the globe. The country has demonstrated success in the creation of a massively industrialized economy in the post-civil war period. The growth of American prosperity was sparked by the quest for intercontinental rail network connections. American businesses were improved to serve the national and international market. Such enabling environment helped create giant corporate organization. Manifesting this holistic…

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    Bridge Vs Keystone Bridge

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    Andrew Carnegie began working for Tom Scott at the age of 12. Scott liked Carnegie and hired him as a personal assistant. In 1868 Scott asked Carnegie to build a bridge across the Mississippi River, to be the largest bridge to ever be built in America. Carnegie has no idea how to build it so he looks for advice from Keystone bridge builders. He decided to use steel, a relatively new material to the time. It was extremely expensive and hard to mass produce tho, no one have ever tried to use steel…

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    in the world? Andrew Carnegie was one of the richest men in the world. Andrew Carnegie went rags to rich when he established a productive steel company. He eventually sold the business for millions of dollars. Through dedicator, intelligence trial and error, this famous American invented a material that has built the U.S. Andrew Carnegie was a poor immigrant that became the richest man in the world, and then he spent the rest of his life giving away his money. Andrew Carnegie was a poor man…

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