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Andrew Carnegie

David Nasaw

出版	DIANE Publishing Company, 2010-06
主題	Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN	143797323X9781437973235
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vR1gRwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

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Autographed photo Scotland/America Andrew Carnegie (born November 25, 1835; died August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848. His first job in the United States was as a factory worker in a bobbin factory. He earned most of his fortune in the steel industry. In the 1870s, he founded the Carnegie Steel Company, a step which cemented his name as one of the Captains of Industry. By the 1890s, the company was the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world. Carnegie sold it in 1901 for $480 million to J.P. Morgan, who created U.S. Steel. With the fortune he made he built Carnegie Hall; later he turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries - the library at Lincoln Memorial University among them. He also donated heavily to world peace, education and scientific research projects. His life has often been referred to as a true rags to riches story.