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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 92. Chapters: American Civil War industrialists, George Pullman, Samuel Morse, Andrew Carnegie, Joseph Whitworth, John Ericsson, Cornelius Vanderbilt, David Leavitt, George Henry Corliss, Samuel Colt, John Crerar, War Governors' Conference, John Edgar Thomson, Jay Cooke, Erastus Corning, William Christopher Macdonald, Hannibal Kimball, James Buchanan Eads, Henry Burden, Daniel Conover, Brutus de Villeroi, Edward Maynard, George Worthington, Robert Adams, Daniel B. Wesson, William Mason, O. C. Barber, William B. Rice, Harvey Marion LaFollette, Oliver Winchester, Rowland G. Hazard, William Tranter, William Ziegler, Robert Patterson, Matthias W. Baldwin, Christian Hedemann, Henry J. Steere, Asa Packer, Ezekiel A. Straw, John F. Winslow, Benjamin E. Bates, George Luther Stearns, Gouverneur Kemble, David Sinton, Christopher Miner Spencer, Henry Lomb, Robert Parker Parrott, William Metcalf, Charles I. du Pont, Christian Sharps, John Jacob Bausch, Samuel Morgan, Horace Smith, Robert Knight, Daniel Pratt, Joseph Whitaker, J. Leonard Replogle, Benjamin Knight, William T. Sutherlin, Samuel Griswold, Benedict Lapham, Francis A. Pratt, Gardner Colby, Warren G. Grimes, James W. Fuller, Jr., Ezra Warner, David Nevins, Sr., William Gregg, Amos Whitney, John L. Porter, Asa Waters, Benjamin Tyler Henry, James W. Fuller, III, Milo Barnum Richardson, Jean Alexandre LeMat, George Gordon Crawford. Excerpt: Andrew Carnegie ( -gee, but commonly -n -gee or -ee) (November 25, 1835 - August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and migrated to the United States as a child with his parents. His first job in the United...
