Andrew was born on November 11, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland, and named
after his grandfather. He had a very though early life. In 1850 he became a
telegraph messenger boy in the Pittsburgh Office of the Ohio Telegraph
Company at $2.50 per week. Andrew was a very hard working person and he
could memorize all the locations of Pittsburgh’s businesses and the faces of
important men. Carnegie was tired of working at such a small company, he wanted
to have his own carrer, by that time steel was very expensive, so Andrew decided to
start his own steel company. Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry,
controlling the most extensive integrated iron and steel operations ever owned by
an industry in the states. One of his two great innovations was in the cheap and
efficient mass production of steel by adopting and adapting the bessemer process
for steel making. At the age of 28 he used all his money to start a steel business,
and became the most popular steel person in the states. His company provided
60% of the steel each year, mostly were used in the rail roads. Soon he became
the second richest person in the country, only next to John D. Rockefeller.
During 1901 he sold his factories at a price of 2.5 billion USD. He donated most of
the money to help those who are in need, and he also built libraries for the poor and
support them to go to schools. Andrew died on 1919/8/11, at the age of 83, while
ended up donated a total of 350,695,653 USD in his whole life, an also made a
