In 1888, Carnegie bought the rival Homestead Steel Works, which included an extensive plant served by tributary coal and iron fields, a 425-mile ( 685 km ) long railway, and a line of lake steamships.

Carnegie also established large pension funds in 1901 for his former employees at Homestead and, in 1905, for American college professors.

The conflict was centered on Carnegie Steel's main plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and grew out of a dispute between the National Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of the United States and the Carnegie Steel Company.

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

" Afterwards, the company successfully resumed operations with non-union immigrant employees in place of the Homestead plant workers, and Carnegie returned to the United States.

Over the course of twenty years, Carnegie ’ s steel properties grew to include the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, the Lucy Furnace Works, the Union Iron Mills, the Homestead Works, the Keystone Bridge Works, the Hartman Steel Works, the Frick Coke Company, and the Scotia ore mines among many other industry related assets.

" Homestead in Context: Andrew Carnegie and the Decline of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.

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In 1883, Andrew Carnegie bought out Homestead Steel Works, adding it to his empire of steel and coke enterprises.

Carnegie had recently acquired a controlling interest in Henry Clay Frick's coke works on the Monongahela, setting the stage for the dramatic labor clash in Homestead.

When Henry Clay Frick, manager for Andrew Carnegie, owner of the local Homestead Steel Works, announced in the spring of 1892 that skilled workers would receive a reduction in wages, the advisory committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers refused to sign a new contract.

The Carnegie Library of Homestead was opened to the public in 1898.

Image: CarnegieLibraryofHomestead. jpg | Carnegie Library of Homestead, built from 1896 to 1898, located in the Homestead Historic District in Munhall

A large part of the Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company existed in Munhall.

The Homestead Library, located in Munhall, was donated by Andrew Carnegie in 1896.

* Homestead Strike, an 1892 labor confrontation at the Carnegie Steel Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania

* In Homestead, Pennsylvania, the site once occupied by Carnegie Steel has been converted into a successful commercial center, The Waterfront.

The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers ( the AA ) and the Carnegie Steel Company.

Carnegie Steel made major technological innovations in the 1880s, especially the installation of the open hearth system at Homestead in 1886.

Carnegie officials conceded that the AA essentially ran the Homestead plant after the 1889 strike.

In 1900, its only manufacturing plant was a steel mill owned by Carnegie Steel Company.

Their discussions revolved not around law and order, but the safety of the Carnegie plant.

Carnegie Steel's Mingo Junction, Ohio plant was the last major unionized steel mill in the country.

In June 1892, workers at a steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania were locked out when negotiations between the Carnegie Steel Company and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers failed.

When he was still a child, he relocated with his family to Youngstown, Ohio, where his Welsh-born father became superintendent at a Carnegie steel plant.

A boiler plant, informally labeled The Cloud Factory, located in Junction Hollow between Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, plays a special role in the novel.

Shull worked with Luther Burbank from 1906 to 1914 in an attempt to publish Burbank's plant work on the behalf of the Carnegie Institution.

By 1889, the U. S. output of steel exceeded that of the UK, and Carnegie owned a large part of it.

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

Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, for example, Carnegie allowed his steel works to fill large orders of armor plate for the building of an enlarged and modernized United States Navy ; while he opposed American oversea expansion.

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

It was the machine that made time-sharing common ; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, the most notable of which were MIT's AI Lab and Project MAC, Stanford's SAIL, Computer Center Corporation ( CCC ), and Carnegie Mellon University.

His contacts included such diverse and well-known personages as Andrew Carnegie, William Howard Taft, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Huttleston Rogers, George Eastman, Julius Rosenwald, Robert Ogden, Collis Potter Huntington and William Henry Baldwin Jr., who donated large sums of money to agencies such as the Jeanes and Slater Funds.

This large " lifestyle " shopping center was built on the former site of the Carnegie Steel Works.

This large " LifeStyle " shopping center was built on the former site of the Carnegie Steel Works.

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.

With a large grant from Andrew Carnegie, the Houston Lyceum and Carnegie Library, later known as the Houston Public Library, was founded in 1904.

Carnegie based his philosophy on the observation that the heirs of large fortunes frequently squandered them in riotous living rather than nurturing and growing them.

In the 1880s, the Elsternwick railway station was also the Melbourne end of the railway line to the large scale sugar beet processing mill at Rosstown ( see Rosstown Railway ) — now known as Carnegie — and beyond.

North Road carries large volumes of traffic, but nearby shopping strips in Carnegie and Bentleigh have thrived by having more of a " village " feel.

The site is best known for the large number of well-preserved Miocene fossils, many of which were found at dig sites on Carnegie and University Hills.

He began this work with children, and then eventually moved on to large group psychodrama sessions that he held at Impromptu Group Theatre at Carnegie Hall.

After a large contribution from Andrew Carnegie it was chartered as the Houston Lyceum and Carnegie Library.

However, it was not until the realization by Andrew Carnegie, that Western Pennsylvania possessed an optimum location for a very large scale American steel sector, that this area, especially Pittsburgh, became known for the industrial specialty that characterizes it today.

Just a few museums, like Carnegie Museum of Art, went to extraordinary lengths to develop their own large, unique casts.

And while some, such as Andrew Carnegie biographer Joseph Frazier Wall have concluded that Margaret Carnegie secretly favored Thomas, others such as Richard S. Tedlow disagree and conclude that Thomas was largely isolated and lonely within the extended Carnegie family and their large coterie of friends.