Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie helped to develop the American economy. He made a company that was in the Dow Jones industrials. He introduced the Bessemer method of steel production to the United States. Think what could have happened without his companies existence, who would have produced steel for transcontinental railroads, the weapons that protect our country against communist threats. Carnegie was not actually native born though, he was born in Scotland and moved to the …
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…day. While this point was not made in the books I possessed, I know that Steel plants are not the best to work in from a health standpoint. I can only imagine what work conditions were like back then. There is a story widely accepted as truth that it was at a dinner that Carnegie wrote the price of which he would sell his company for. The number was 492 million sold to J. P. Morgan.