All these industries built the United States of America into one of the world’s leading powers. Andrew Carnegie was an integral part in getting the USA to such a huge industrial power started at the bottom and worked his way up. He arrived in America as a preteen and ran errands for the Pennsylvania Railroad but quickly climbed the ‘managerial ladder’. He ended up leaving the railroad business to focus on other interests, particularly oil and steel. Through his experiences he learned about the railroad industry and business and at twenty-nine-years-old he became a self-made steel manufacturer. He started small and only sold to the people he knew of in the railroad business and then went on to build a steel mill, later known as “Carnegie Steel Company”. He built plants all around the country using vertical integration following Gustavus Swift. He would buy the mills in times of depression because he knew they would come back, it was a cycle to him. But the more mills he was able to purchase, the more work was available to
All these industries built the United States of America into one of the world’s leading powers. Andrew Carnegie was an integral part in getting the USA to such a huge industrial power started at the bottom and worked his way up. He arrived in America as a preteen and ran errands for the Pennsylvania Railroad but quickly climbed the ‘managerial ladder’. He ended up leaving the railroad business to focus on other interests, particularly oil and steel. Through his experiences he learned about the railroad industry and business and at twenty-nine-years-old he became a self-made steel manufacturer. He started small and only sold to the people he knew of in the railroad business and then went on to build a steel mill, later known as “Carnegie Steel Company”. He built plants all around the country using vertical integration following Gustavus Swift. He would buy the mills in times of depression because he knew they would come back, it was a cycle to him. But the more mills he was able to purchase, the more work was available to