Title: Andrew Carnegie - Wikipedia
Headings: Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Contents
Biography
Early life
Railroads
1860–1865: The Civil War
Keystone Bridge Company
Industrialist
1885–1900: Steel empire
1901: U.S. Steel
Scholar and activist
1880–1900
Anti-imperialism
1901–1919: Philanthropist
3,000 public libraries
Investing in education
Death
Controversies
1889: Johnstown Flood
1892: Homestead Strike
Philosophy
Politics
Andrew Carnegie Dictum
On wealth
Intellectual influences
Religion and worldview
World peace
United States colonial expansion
Writings
Legacy and honors
Benefactions
Research sources
Works
See also
Notes
References
Cited sources
Collections
Further reading
External links

Content: Carnegie started work as a telegrapher, and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges, and oil derricks. He accumulated further wealth as a bond salesman, raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J. P. Morgan in 1901 for $303,450,000. It became the U.S. Steel Corporation. After selling Carnegie Steel, he surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American for the next several years. Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education, and scientific research. With the fortune he made from business, he built Carnegie Hall in New York, NY, and the Peace Palace and founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Carnegie Hero Fund, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, among others. Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early life
1.2 Railroads
1.3 1860–1865: The Civil War
1.4 Keystone Bridge Company
1.5 Industrialist
1.5.1 1885–1900: Steel empire
1.5.2 1901: