Carnegie believed in using his fortune for others and doing more than making money.

Carnegie believed the concentration of capital was essential for societal progress and should be encouraged.

Carnegie believed that the sons of prosperous businesspersons were rarely as talented as their fathers.

Most notably, Carnegie believed that the future leaders of society would rise from the ranks the poor.

Carnegie strongly believed in this because he had risen from the bottom.

Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

Carnegie is also believed to have fed them salt, and he was later publicly criticised for this.

The independent Freehold Public Library is one of the remaining Carnegie-funded libraries in the state and is believed to be the only one with the name " Carnegie Library " engraved on its front.

" Carnegie believed that the Amalgamated was a hindrance to efficiency ; furthermore it was not representative of the workers.

Andrew Carnegie, like other leading internationalists of his day, believed that war could be eliminated by stronger international laws and organizations.

Carnegie believed in giving to the " industrious and ambitious ; not those who need everything done for them, but those who, being most anxious and able to help themselves, deserve and will be benefited by help from others.

In late September 1886, Thomas Carnegie fell ill with what he believed to be a cold.

An example of a more definite class bias is noted in proceedings of the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education sponsored by the Association of American Universities and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.

In total Carnegie funded some 3, 000 libraries, located in 47 US states, and also in Canada, the United Kingdom, what is now the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, and Fiji.

CIT is now part of Carnegie Mellon University.

Carnegie is buried only a few yards away from union organizer Samuel Gompers, another important figure of industry in the Gilded Age.

Carnegie, a self-proclaimed to devotee of Spencer is also noted as saying " My business is to do as much good in the world as I can ; I have retired from all of their business.

On the matter of American annexation, Carnegie had always thought it is an unwise gesture for the United States.

Today its focus is on ethics and it is known as the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, whose mission is to be the voice for ethics in international affairs.

Andrew Carnegie is described in John Dos Passos ' 42nd Parallel as a confident man in whatever he invested in, which included many things that our world flourished on for many years to the present time.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

The original fossil skeleton is assembled and stands in the Hall of Dinosaurs at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

* The Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education, at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, is named after him.

* Disney's Scrooge McDuck is thought to have been inspired by Carnegie.

* A street in Belgrade ( Serbia ), next to the Belgrade University Library which is one of the Carnegie libraries, is named in his honor.

* An American high school, Carnegie Vanguard High School in Houston, Texas, is named after him

Carnegie Hall, built in 1909, is a large, two-storey, Neo-classical brick building on the Registry of Historic Places of Canada

There are six markers within the city limits: ' Cadillac Carnegie Library ,' ' Charles T. Mitchell House ,' ' Clam Lake Canal ,' ' Cobbs & Mitchell Building ,' ' Cobbs & Mitchell No. 1 ' and the ' Shay Locomotive ,' which is pictured at the right.

While presenting the Carnegie Institute's Gold Medal to Beaux in 1899, William Merritt Chase stated " Miss Beaux is not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.

The Capability Maturity Model ( CMM ) ( a registered service mark of Carnegie Mellon University, CMU ) is a development model created after study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the U. S. Department of Defense, who funded the research.

The Zener diode is named for Dr. Clarence Melvin Zener of Carnegie Mellon University, inventor of the device.

Dr. Kathy Bussert-Webb, an Associate Professor in the Language, Literacy, and Intercultural Studies Department of the College of Education and also the CCE Director, led the effort ; she was assisted by Ms. Ethel Cantu, Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs, the CCE staff, the Carnegie Task Force, and many faculty, staff, and students.

The Carnegie Foundation was a leader in the effort to provide federal aid for higher education, including Pell Grants, which assist low-and middle-income students.

He was also a member of the Carnegie group that accurately determined the decay constants of potassium and rubidium, an effort that has also become fundamental to the measurement of geological time.

In 1942, he left teaching to work at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C., and the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, all research centers for the war effort.

In December 1915 a fund-raising effort was launched at the Carnegie Hall, at which he delivered an emotional appeal which raised a million dollars in donations.

D. D. will pop up with U-I Chief Milt Rackmil at the Carnegie theater tomorrow to toast 300 movie exhibitors.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

The Center for Urban Science and Progress ( CUSP ) is an applied science research institute which will be a partnership of top institutions from around the globe, led by NYU and NYU-Poly with a consortium of world-class universities including: The University of Warwick, Carnegie Mellon University, the City University of New York, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and the University of Toronto.

I invite you to attend a meeting to pay homage to him and to speak in his memory, on Friday evening, November 9th, at 9 o ' clock, in Miss Bentley's studio in Carnegie Hall, at which time, likewise, will be played some of his favorite music and some of those pieces dedicated to him which were composed by me while he was at the Prieuré.

HSPVA was established in 1971 The site that was going to have the new HSPVA will instead have the new Carnegie Vanguard High School.

" John Burlew, the editor of the Carnegie Institution of Washington book Algal Culture-from Laboratory to Pilot Plant, stated, " the algae culture may fill a very real need ," which Science News Letter turned into " future populations of the world will be kept from starving by the production of improved or educated algae related to the green scum on ponds.

The club will continue to be known as Leeds Carnegie RUFC.

In its 2009 / 2010 season, the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama will present a new " modern " adaptation of The Government Inspector by Dr. Michael Chemers and directed by Jed Allen Harris.

She will make her Carnegie Hall solo debut on October 29, 2012.

In addition, the group will perform at the inaugural Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall and hosted its first public charity gala concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

During their 2011-2012 Carnegie season, Orpheus will collaborate with violinists Gil Shaham and Viviane Hagner, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, oboist Albrecht Mayer, and mandolinist Chris Thile.

All except one Carnegie Hall concert date in the 2011-12 season will feature one piece by one of these young composers.

In 1906 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching conferred upon him " as the first man to whom such recognition for meritorious service is given, the highest retiring allowance which our rules will allow, an annual income of $ 3000.

The will asked ( but did not require ) her to seek the advice of her brother-in-law Andrew Carnegie and her father ( deceased in 1878 ) in disposing of Thomas ' business interests.

In his letter of gift to his original trustees, Carnegie wrote ( employing the simplified spelling he favored ): " Conditions upon erth inevitably change ; hence, no wise man will bind Trustees forever to certain paths, causes or institutions.

In 2012, CRDF Global will recognize three individuals for their scientific and humanitarian achievements: Mr. William H. Draper, III, General Partner of Draper Richards L. P and Co-Chairman of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Dr. David A. Hamburg, President Emeritus at Carnegie Corporation of New York, former president of AAAS and the Institute of Medicine, and Dr. Charles M. Vest, President of the National Academy of Engineering and President Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.