Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American businessman and major philanthropist. He made a vast contrubution to the steel making world during the time of industrilizim. Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry, controlling the most extensive integrated iron and steel operations ever owned by an individual in the United States. His great innovation was in the cheap and efficient mass production of steel rails for railroad lines. Carnegie's empire would later embrace the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Works, the Lucy Furnaces, the Union Iron Mills, the Union Mill, the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company and the Scotia ore mines. Carnegie, through Keystone, supplied the steel for the landmark Eads Bridge across the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri, an important proof-of-concept for steel technology and the opening of a new steel market. In the late 1880s Carnegie Steel was the largest manufacturer of pig-iron,......
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