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Carnegie and helped
Although his promotion of anti-imperialism and world peace had all failed, and the Carnegie Endowment had not fulfilled his expectations, his beliefs and ideas on international relations had helped build the foundation of the League of Nations after his death, which took world peace to another level.
* The School of Computer Science: Carnegie Mellon University helped define, and continually redefines, the field of computer science.
The Scottish-American philanthropist and businessman, Andrew Carnegie, helped to increase the number of public libraries from the late 19th century.
He began going to classes — including a Dale Carnegie class, which helped him to conquer his stuttering problem.
In 1901, he helped negotiate the secret sale of Carnegie Steel to a group of New York-based financiers led by J. P. Morgan.
Eventually he moved to corporate law and his rise in politics was strongly helped by his relationship with Andrew Carnegie and the United States Steel Corporation.
The merger helped Carnegie get out of the steel business and make him the richest man in the world at the time.
He helped Carnegie get promoted to the Premiership.
Howard mentioned the university and its purpose in a speech at Carnegie Hall in 1901, which helped raise money and allowed the university to pay off its debts.
Carnegie Library ( now Carnegie Hall ) opened in 1912 after Andrew Carnegie's foundation helped finance the brick structure.
Carnegie Corporation has helped establish or endowed a variety of institutions, including the Carnegie libraries, the National Research Council, the Russian Research Center at Harvard, and the Children's Television Workshop, and for many years heavily supported Carnegie's other philanthropic organizations, especially Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ( CEIP ), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ( CFAT ), and the Carnegie Institution for Science ( CIS ).
Mellon helped to arrange the merger of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, founded by his father Andrew W. Mellon with Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1967 to create Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Under Kerr's direction, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education produced more than 160 policy reports, research studies and technical reports that helped define key federal policies and programs in higher education and student financial aid.
Schild spent the next eleven years at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, where he helped to develop the first atomic clocks.
Between 1993 and 1996 Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Rockefeller Foundation helped the organization establish efficient institutional and financial systems.
Israel Marks, who helped operate the Marks-Rothenberg Department Store next door to the Grand Opera House, was an acquaintance of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Carnegie and open
* Cyrus IMAP Server – A free / open source IMAP and POP3 server, developed by Carnegie Mellon University
; CMUCL: Originally from Carnegie Mellon University, now maintained as free and open source software by a group of volunteers.
Two other groups contributed to the design of the language and developed implementations: Harlequin released a commercial IDE for Microsoft Windows and Carnegie Mellon University released an open source compiler for Unix systems.
* 1900-American Friends open work in Cuba ; Ecumenical Missionary Conference in Carnegie Hall, New York ( 162 mission boards represented ); 189 missionaries and their children killed in Boxer Rebellion in China ; South African Andrew Murray writes The Key to the Missionary Problem in which he challenges the church to hold weeks of prayer for the world
The Carnegie Theatre and Theatre Royal are still open and put on performances all year round.
Carnegie Steel made major technological innovations in the 1880s, especially the installation of the open hearth system at Homestead in 1886.
It was brought to the attention of producers Edgar Lansbury ( brother of Angela Lansbury ) and Joseph Beruh by Carnegie alumnus Charles Haid ( associate producer ), who wanted to open it Off-Broadway.
There are five important castles in the vicinity-Carbisdale Castle, built for the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland and now a youth hostel ; Skibo Castle, once the home of the industrialist Andrew Carnegie and now an exclusive hotel ; Dunrobin Castle, ancestral seat of the Duke of Sutherland ( castle and gardens open to the public ); Balnagown Castle, ancestral seat of the Clan Ross, restored and owned by Mohammed Al Fayed ; and Ballone Castle, recently restored by the owners of a local crafts business.
Interior of the Carnegie library in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the typical open stacks and centrally located librarian's desk.
" The Carnegie libraries were important because they had open stacks which encouraged people to browse .... People could choose for themselves what books they wanted to read ," according to Walter E. Langsam, an architectural historian and teacher at the University of Cincinnati.
The microfilms are open for research as part of the Carnegie Corporation of New York Records collection, residing at Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The Andrew Carnegie Foundation funded the Denver Public Library ( 1910 ), which was designed as a three-story Greek Revival temple with a colossal Ionic colonnade across its front ; inside it featured open shelves, an art gallery and a children's room.
It was a Carnegie library, built with a 3, 000 pound grant from Andrew Carnegie of New York-the condition under which the money was given was that the reading rooms should be open to everyone and that the lending Library should be free to ratepayers of the borough.
A year or two afterward, she recorded Donizetti's Anna Bolena ( a role she had sung at Carnegie Hall to open its 1967-68 season, and her interpretation of which was largely unchanged by the time she made the recording a few years later ) and Verdi's Macbeth.
Andrew Carnegie decided to stop relying solely on his company's own furnaces for coke, and began seeking to buy the fuel on the open market.
The Carnegie Library was so successful that within a year after the opening of the library, Carnegie suggested he would give more money to open branch libraries.
The Britannia, Carnegie, Central, Dunbar, Joe Fortes, Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Oakridge, and Renfrew branches are also open on Sundays.
Carnegie made major technological innovations in the 1880s, especially the installation of the open hearth furnace system at Homestead in 1886.

Carnegie and rail
Although the company continued to prosper during the early 1880s, its share of the rail market began to decline in the face of competition from growing Pittsburgh-based firms such as the Carnegie Steel Company.

Carnegie and lines
In spring 1861, Carnegie was appointed by Scott, who was now Assistant Secretary of War in charge of military transportation, as Superintendent of the Military Railways and the Union Government's telegraph lines in the East.
Carnegie Mellon University started experimentation along these lines under the Accent kernel project, using an IPC system based on shared memory.
The memorial features Locke, Blackpool Tower, Carnegie Hall, and the musical notes of the opening lines of " Hear My Song ".
One of the foremost producers of such scale models is Safari Ltd., known for such lines as the Carnegie Collection, a line of dinosaur replicas that adheres to a 1: 40 scale, and the Vanishing Wild Collection, featuring mammal figures on a scale of 1: 15.
Carnegie is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Carnegie, on the Pakenham and Cranbourne railway lines.
The principle was proposed by Prof. Granger Morgan of Carnegie Mellon University in 1989 in the context of electromagnetic radiation safety ( in particular, fields produced by power lines ).
Carnegie, who emigrated with her family to the United States at the age of six years old in 1886, was known for her elegant couture collection and secondary ready-to-wear lines.
Her shop, at its peak, carried her own ' Hattie Carnegie Couture ' collection, Paris couture imports from Chanel, Vionnet and Dior, a fur line, her several ready-to-wear lines under different names, a costume jewelry line, a cosmetic line and even a chocolate line.

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