Invention Timeline - Andrew Carnegie, American Manufacturer; He Established a Rolling Mill
b. November 25, 1835 and d. ?
American manufacturer. He was one of the first to read telegraphic signals by sound. Associated with others, he established a rolling mill and from this has grown the most extensive and complete system of steel and iron industries ever controlled by an individual. He is a frequent contributor to periodicals on the labor question. He wrote “Triumphant Democracy; or, Fifty Years’ March of the Republic” (1886). He has given enormous sums to the founding of public libraries throughout the United States and Great Britain, and has contributed largely to educational institutions.
For just experience tells, in ev’ry soil,
That those who think must govern those that toil;
And all that Freedom’s highest aims can reach
Is but to lay proportion’d loads on each.
—Traveller: Goldsmith
Kings are said to have long arms but every man
should have long arms, and should pluck his living,
his instruments, his power and his knowing, from
the sun. moon and stars. Is not then the demand
to be rich legitimate? Yet, I have never seen a rich
man. I have never seen a man as rich as all men
ought to be, or with an adequate command of nature.
—Wealth: Emerson
His own suggestion of an appropriate epitaph for his tomb is: “Here lies a man who knew how to get around him much cleverer men than himself.”
