In 1889, Carnegie published an essay in a political magazine. Through the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the innovative philanthropic foundation he established in 1911, his fortune has since supported everything from the discovery of insulin and the dismantling of nuclear weapons, to the creation of Sesame Street and the Common Core Standards. He formed Carnegie Bros. & Co. in 1881 with a capital of $5 million; its chairman was Tom Carnegie; after 1889 Frick held the post. Established in 1903 as the Carnegie Technical Schools; in 1912, it became Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. Carnegie spent at least six months of each year with his wife in Scotland. For Grantees.
A year later, he was hired as a messenger for a local telegraph company, where he taught himself how to use the equipment and was promoted to telegraph operator. He supported the founding of the Peace Palace in The Hague in 1903, gave $10 million to found the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1910 to “hasten the abolition of international war,” and worked ceaselessly for the cause until the outbreak of World War I. In 1874 he donated £5,000 for the Carnegie Baths recreation and health club, which was followed in 1880 by his gift for a public library.“We sailed from the Broomielaw of Glasgow in the 800-ton sailing ship Wiscasset…”Andrew Carnegie (right) at age 16, photographed in 1851 with his younger brother, Thomas, shorty after their arrival in America“The emigrant is the capable, energetic, ambitious, discontented man.”The Carnegie Steel Company plant in Youngstown, Ohio, 1910“It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive… as the founding of a public library.”The first Carnegie Library in the U.S. in Braddock, Pennsylvania, site of his steel mills“Labor, capital, and ability are a three-legged stool… They are equal members of the great triple alliance which moves the industrial world.”The city of Pittsburgh witnessed Andy Carnegie’s meteoric rise from bobbin boy in a cotton mill, to telegraph operator, to railroad manager, and finally to steel industry titan. Librarians considered that grand design inefficient, and too expensive to maintain. The portal is free of charge and provides a treasure of primary resources for scholars and anyone else interested in Andrew Carnegie, the evolution of the Corporation, and the important role of philanthropy in 20th-century America. Carnegie sold out his steel and related interests for $447 million in 1901 (Carnegie himself took $226 million; the rest went to his associates) to a syndicate formed by After 1868 he made New York City his base and seldom visited Pittsburgh, leaving daily operations in the hands of partners and senior subordinates. Andrew Carnegie Fellows; Great Immigrants; Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy; Nunn-Lugar Award for Promoting Nuclear Security; Grants. He wrote his own work, without ghostwriters.
Carnegie had some investments in the iron industry before the war and, after the war, he left the railroads to devote all his energies to the ironworks trade.
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Carnegie, Andrew.The Andrew Carnegie Reader edited by Joseph Frazier Wall (1992) Carnegie, Andrew. Carnegie frequently pressured Jones to decrease employee wages, only to have Jones fearlessly reiterate the efficacy of enlightened labor policy.Carnegie purchased iron ore lands in the Lake Superior region, acquired ships and ore-handling facilities, and joined forces in 1884 with Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), who controlled the great Connesville coal beds.
They shall best conform to my wishes by using their own judgment.”By the time of his death, Andrew Carnegie, despite his best efforts, had not been able to give away his entire fortune. He then moved rapidly through a succession of jobs with Western Union and the Pennsylvania Railroad. After selling his steel company for hundreds of millions, Carnegie devoted the rest of his life to writing and philanthropic activities, including building thousands of public libraries across the United States. He did not keep this resolution, but as his fortune grew so did his concern for reconciling great wealth with social and political democracy.