From 1901 forward, public attention was turned from the shrewd business acumen which had enabled Carnegie to accumulate such a fortune, to the public-spirited way in which he devoted himself to utilizing it on philanthropic projects.

On April 10, 1927, Antheil rented New York's Carnegie Hall in order to present an entire concert devoted to his works including the American debut of Ballet Mécanique in a scaled-down version.

In 1919 he was left an annuity of £ 1000 by Andrew Carnegie which left him financially independent and he spent the rest of his life devoted to his interests in books, London history and cricket.

* In 1979 at Carnegie Hall, she received the Albert Schweitzer Music Award " for a life's work dedicated to music and devoted to humanity.

In 1884, the Carnegie Laboratory, the first facility in the U. S. devoted to teaching and research in bacteriology and pathology, was established at NYU.

1884: The Carnegie Laboratory, the first facility in the United States devoted to teaching and research in bacteriology and pathology, is established at NYU.

It was created in 1801 for the noted naval commander John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent, with remainder to his nephews William Henry Ricketts and Edward Jervis Ricketts successively, and after them to his niece Mary, wife of William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk.

Falling on very hard times as a handloom weaver and with the country in starvation, William Carnegie decided to move with his family to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in the United States in 1848 for the prospect of a better life.

Carnegie argued that the life of a wealthy industrialist should comprise two parts.

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.

Influenced by his " favorite living hero in public life ", the British liberal, John Bright, Carnegie started his efforts in pursuit of world peace at a young age.

Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh jointly administer the Andrew Carnegie Collection of digitized archives on Carnegie's life.

* The Carnegie Hero Fund-was established to recognize persons who perform extraordinary acts of heroism in civilian life in the United States and Canada, and to provide financial assistance for those disabled and the dependents of those killed saving or attempting to save others.

The Steinway Hall seated more than 2, 000 and quickly became an important part of New York City's cultural life, housing the New York Philharmonic for the next 25 years until Carnegie Hall opened in 1891.

Also Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art holds a Neapolitan Presepio, Handcrafted between 1700 and 1830, the presepio teems with lifelike figures and colorful details that re-create the Nativity within a vibrant and detailed panorama of 18th-century Italian village life.

Carnegie Steel vice president ( later, president ) John George Alexander Leishman, who was with Frick, was then able to grab Berkman ’ s arm and prevented a third shot, saving Frick's life.

Frick had engaged a similar stratagem when orchestrating the ouster of the man who had saved his life, John George Alexander Leishman, from the presidency of Carnegie Steel a decade beforehand.

In 1946, he gave his last recital at Carnegie Hall, home to his 151 appearances, and retired to private life in 1948.

Sosa performed in venues such as the Lincoln Center in New York City, the Théâtre Mogador in Paris and the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, as well as sell-out shows in New York's Carnegie Hall and the Roman Coliseum during her final decade of life.

Norman premiered the song cycle woman. life. song by composer Judith Weir, a work commissioned for her by Carnegie Hall, with texts by Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Clarissa Pinkola Estés ; performed a selection of sacred music of Duke Ellington ; recorded a jazz album, Jessye Norman Sings Michel Legrand ; and was the soprano co-lead in Vangelis ' project Mythodea. Norman commended herself in Mussorgsky's songs, which she performed in Moscow in the original Russian.

But while Andrew Carnegie found a father-figure ( in Tom Scott, a family friend ) after the death of Will Carnegie in 1855, Thomas did not and spent most of his life emulating his brother.

When the village hall was built in 1930-1, two students from the Royal College of Art ( Robert Baker and Edward Payne ) were commissioned by the Carnegie Trust to decorate the walls entirely with murals, depicting village life as it was then.

The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, also known as Carnegie Hero Fund, was established to recognize persons who perform extraordinary acts of heroism in civilian life in the United States and Canada, and to provide financial assistance for those disabled and the dependents of those killed saving or attempting to save others.

Two other study groups formed to examine critical problems in American life were the Carnegie Council on Children ( 1972 ) and the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting ( 1977 ), the latter formed almost ten years after the first commission

Maclaren's first stories of rural Scottish life, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush ( 1894 ), achieved extraordinary popularity, selling more than 3 / 4 of a million copies, and were succeeded by other successful books, The Days of Auld Lang Syne ( 1895 ), Kate Carnegie and those Ministers ( 1896 ), and Afterwards and other Stories ( 1898 ).

In the late 1940s, Dameron wrote arrangements for the big band of Dizzy Gillespie, who gave the première of his large-scale orchestral piece Soulphony at Carnegie Hall in 1948.

With the fortune he made from business among others he built Carnegie Hall, later he turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

Between 1886 and 1917, Carnegie reformed both library philanthropy and library design, encouraging a closer correspondence between the two.

Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

These collections deal primarily with Carnegie philanthropy and have very little personal material related to Carnegie.

In the 20th century American philanthropy matured, with the development of very large private foundations created by titans of industry — Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, et al .— and later in the century with the professionalization of the field led and funded by those great foundations.

Rockefeller's interest in philanthropy on a large scale began in 1889, influenced by Andrew Carnegie's published essay, The Gospel of Wealth, which prompted him to write a letter to Carnegie praising him as an example to other rich men.

The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America after the Carnegie Corporation, the foundation's impact on philanthropy in general has been profound.

He has also been compared to Andrew Carnegie by Barabara Ford, president of the American Library Association, in honor of his philanthropy, implying that its influence on the world's libraries rivals that of the Carnegie family on the United States '.

" Wealth ", more commonly known as " The Gospel of Wealth ", is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.

Many of these captains of industry, in addition to building the still fledgeling American economy, participated in immense acts of philanthropy ( referred to by Andrew Carnegie as the " Gospel of Wealth ") and used private money to endow thousands of colleges, hospitals, museums, academies, schools, opera houses, public libraries, symphony orchestras, and charities.

Peabody is the acknowledged father of modern philanthropy, having established the practice later followed by Johns Hopkins, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and Bill Gates.

The wealth of the period is highlighted by American upper class opulence, but also by the rise of American philanthropy ( referred to by Andrew Carnegie as the " Gospel of Wealth ") that used private money to endow thousands of colleges, hospitals, museums, academies, schools, opera houses, public libraries, symphony orchestras, and charities.

( B. D. Coleman with Walter Noll, Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Institute of Technology ) viscoelastic measurements

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

They showed they were glad that Carnegie would have a major orchestra playing there so often next season to take up the slack with the departure to Lincoln Center of the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony.

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848.

He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U. S. Steel.

Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in a typical weaver's cottage with only one main room consisting of half the ground floor which was shared with the neighboring weaver's family.

Carnegie age 16, with brother Thomas

In 1855, Scott made it possible for Carnegie to invest $ 500 in the Adams Express, which contracted with the Pennsylvania to carry its messengers.

Carnegie worked with others in establishing a steel rolling mill and steel production and control of industry became the source of his fortune.

In the late 1880s, Carnegie Steel was the largest manufacturer of pig iron, steel rails, and coke in the world, with a capacity to produce approximately 2, 000 tons of pig metal per day.

Carnegie combined his assets and those of his associates in 1892 with the launching of the Carnegie Steel Company.

Carnegie also opposed the annexation of Cuba by the United States and in this, was successful with many other conservatives who founded an anti-imperialist league that included former presidents of the United States, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, and literary figures like Mark Twain.

Carnegie, right, with James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce.

Originally called the Binghamton Public Library, it was created with a gift of $ 75, 000 from Carnegie.

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 telescope saw first light on November 2, 1917, with Carnegie still alive.

According to Berkman, "... with the elimination of Frick, responsibility for Homestead conditions would rest with Carnegie.