timeline

  • 1835

    1835
    andrew carnegie was born in 1835 in scotland and he was poor at first
  • 1865

    1865
    Andrew Carnegie left the railroad (his old job) and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron
  • 1899

    1899
    By 1899 when he consolidated
    into the Andrew Carnegie Steel Company he controlled a quarter of the American iron & steel production.