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.

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.

Reinvesting his returns in such inside investments in railroad-related industries: ( iron, bridges, and rails ), Carnegie slowly accumulated capital, the basis for his later success.

He founded the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States and Canada in 1904 ( a few years later also established in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany ) for the recognition of deeds of heroism.

In 1949, Simon became a professor of administrations and chairman of the Department of Industrial Management at Carnegie Tech ( later to become Carnegie Mellon University ).

* 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City ( later known as Carnegie Hall ) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

Hart later came to an arrangement with Carnegie Mellon University, which agreed to administer Project Gutenberg's finances.

** Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0. 16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.

The campus began to take shape in the Beaux-Arts architecture style of Henry Hornbostel, winner of the 1904 competition to design the original institution and later the founder of what is now the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture.

The route, which crossed the territories of nine different Aborigine language groups, had been explored previously in 1896 by the Calvert Expedition led by Lawrence Wells and again later that year by the Carnegie Expedition led by David Carnegie.

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

One short studio session was made for Riverside ( only released later by its subsidiary Jazzland in 1961 ) and a larger group recording featuring Coltrane was split between that album and Monk's Music ; an amateur tape from the Five Spot ( not the original residency, but a later September 1958 reunion with Coltrane sitting in for Johnny Griffin ) was issued on Blue Note in 1993 ; and a recording of the quartet performing at a Carnegie Hall concert on November 29, previously " rumoured to exist ", was recorded in high fidelity by Voice of America, rediscovered in the collection of the Library of Congress in 2005 and released by Blue Note.

One of the surviving occupants, 14-year-old Brian Gibbons, was later awarded the George Medal for bravery, as well as the Carnegie Award.

In January 1963 Parks learned to play the guitar ; upon dropping out of Carnegie Tech, he relocated to Los Angeles to play with his older brother Carson Parks ( writer of " Somethin ' Stupid ") as The Steeltown Two ( later enlarged to the Steeltown Three ), which eventually became the folk group The Greenwood County Singers.

Carnegie Hall, the oldest original building on the present MSU campus, was erected a year later.

McDonald was created as a " company town " or " factory town ," by the Carnegie Steel Co. ( later known as US Steel ). McDonald history link

Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

Andrew Carnegie (, but commonly or ; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919 ) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

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

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 was a consistent borrower and a " self-made man " in both his economic development and his intellectual and cultural development.

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.

He was invited to many important social functions — functions that Carnegie exploited to his own advantage.

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.

In 1901, Carnegie was 66 years of age and considering retirement.

Carnegie's share of this amounted to $ 225, 639, 000 ( presently, $), which was paid to Carnegie in the form of 5 %, 50-year gold bonds.

It was said that "... Carnegie never wanted to see or touch these bonds that represented the fruition of his business career.

The highlight for them all was a triumphal return to Dunfermline, where Carnegie's mother laid the foundation stone of a Carnegie Library for which he donated the money.

Carnegie was also known to be a great journalist.

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.

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.

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.

Carnegie was a large benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington for African-American education.

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.

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.

Before the Civil War, Carnegie arranged a merger between Woodruff's company and that of George M. Pullman, the inventor of a sleeping car for first class travel which facilitated business travel at distances over.

Carnegie helped open the rail lines into Washington D. C. that the rebels had cut ; he rode the locomotive pulling the first brigade of Union troops to reach Washington D. C.

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

McLean's first concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Albert Hall in London in 1972 were critically acclaimed.

During the first ten years of its existence, IIT Kanpur benefited from the Kanpur Indo-American Programme ( KIAP ), where a consortium of nine US universities ( namely M. I. T, University of California, Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Ohio State University,

* 1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.

It stood as the record for a long time, until the first computer analysis, which was done at Carnegie Mellon University, in 1990, by David Applegate, Guy Jacobson, and Daniel Sleator.

* 1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.

The first recipient, in 1966, was Alan Perlis, of Carnegie Mellon University.

In 1961, years before meeting Lennon, she had her first major public performance in a concert at the 258-seat Carnegie Recital Hall ( not the larger " Main Hall ").

** Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.

* The first Carnegie library is opened in Andrew Carnegie's hometown, Dunfermline, Scotland.

* May 5 – The Music Hall in New York ( now known as Carnegie Hall ) has its grand opening and first public performance, with maestro Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

On April 24, 1984, cmu. edu, Carnegie Mellon's Internet domain became among the first six. edu URLs.

In 1928, she sang for the first time at Carnegie Hall.

More recently, Kristen Kuster created a choral orchestration, Myrrha, written in 2004 and first performed at Carnegie Hall in 2006.

Mengelberg's first records for Victor were acousticals made in 1922 ; Toscanini's recordings with the Philharmonic actually began with a single disc for Brunswick in 1926, recorded in a rehearsal hall at Carnegie Hall.

The orchestra was first heard on CBS directly from Carnegie Hall.

Built in the 1910s, the Paulding County Carnegie Library was the first Carnegie library to serve an entire county instead of a single city.

In 1917, Superintendent of Schools Sylvester Moore and his wife were instrumental in forming Brownsburg ’ s first public library, funded by local gifts as well as a $ 12, 500 gift from Carnegie Corporation.

In 1909, Houston become home to the first Carnegie library in the state after L. B.