May 28. -- The steel mills of Pittsburg are so busy they will not have time to celebrate Decoration Day Monday. The men have been ordered to report for work. The Carnegie Steel Company ...

By 1873, he had moved into steel, improving quality and lowering costs. By 1900, his Carnegie Steel Co. produced a quarter of the steel in the U.S. and controlled iron mines, ore ships and railroads.

In response to advancements in technology, Carnegie replaced aged equipment. These investments soon paid off, as his mills were always the most productive in the world because of reduced labor costs.

Steel railroad rails costing $100 per ton between 1873 and 1875 were reduced by 50% by Carnegie Steel's use of the Bessemer process. As a result of his mill built in 1876, his steel rail production ...

It’s right there in the name. But it’s more than that. The company emerged from Andrew Carnegie’s Pittsburgh-area steel mills, which produced one of the largest fortunes and were the site of ...

Edgar Thomson Steel Mill, essentially starting the Carnegie Empire. His company became the Carnegie Steel Company in 1899 ...

One of the captains of industry of 19th century America, Andrew Carnegie helped build the formidable American steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into the richest man in the world.

“Andrew Carnegie? Sure. But this is the other side ... He outlines mass-production trends at the Edgar Thomson Works — the Braddock steel mill whose 1875 baptism pre-dates U.S. Steel, which ...

One of the captains of industry of 19th century America, Andrew Carnegie helped build the formidable American steel industry, a process that turned a poor young man into the richest man in the world.