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Carnegie worked to develop several iron works, eventually forming The Keystone Bridge Works and the Union Ironworks, in Pittsburgh.
* 1940: As a staff physicist for the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D. C., Van Allen worked on developing photoelectric and radio Proximity fuses for bombs, rockets, and gun-fired projectiles.
Root worked with Andrew Carnegie in programs for international peace and the advancement of science.
He then worked as an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and a compiler implementer at Tartan Laboratories.
Upon graduation from Carnegie Mellon, she was employed at RCA as a design engineer, and later worked with various NASA projects contracted to the company.
One example of rising from this job to great heights in America was young Andrew Carnegie, who at age 13 worked as a bobbin boy in 1848.
Heinz then worked in the financial and marketing division of the H. J. Heinz Company between 1965 to 1970, after which he became a professor of business at the Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration.
Dr Forgy remained at Carnegie Mellon post-graduation and worked on further improvements to OPS5 ; in 1983 he formed a company called Production Systems Technologies to develop and sell rule-based software, where he developed " Rete II ", a more efficient successor to Rete.
* brother Geoffrey ( 1903 – 1986 ) became an All Black and worked as a travelling WEA ( Workers ' Educational Association ) tutor sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation, before becoming New Zealand's first National Librarian in 1964 ;
He attended Carnegie Mellon University and worked in the Pittsburgh theatre scene, performing with such companies as Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.
He has worked at Sussex, UCSD, Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon University and University College London.
After leaving Groton, Rickey worked at various schools throughout the country as part of the Carnegie Corporation's Visiting Artists / Artists in Residence program ( partially funded by the Works Progress Administration ).
They worked on the same bill as names like Miles Davis, Count Basie, Gerry Mulligan, Dave Brubeck and the Modern Jazz Quartet ; backed singers Billie Holiday and Carmen McRae ; and played at top venues such as Carnegie Hall and Birdland.
From Columbia he worked at the newly founded Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
In the early 1980s seven-time world champion step-dancer, Michael Flatley toured the world with The Chieftains and performed five solo dances ( including a triple spin ) at Carnegie Hall, New York, in a defining moment that led more than a decade later to a show at the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin that soon developed into the Irish dance extravaganza the world came to know as Riverdance Jean Butler, one of the original leads, also worked with The Chieftains.
He worked for the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace and lectured at Harvard University, 1916-18, where he became a lecturer in 1920 and then professor of the history of science from 1940 until his retirement in 1951.
His first job was as a messenger boy for the Eastern Telegraph Company where he worked alongside future steel magnate Andrew Carnegie.
) Coleman and Carnegie lived near one another in Homewood and went to work together on the streetcar, and it was during these daily commutes that the men worked on their plans for the new steel works.
The Biddies have worked with the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall since 2002.
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.
As well as Cambridge, he has worked at the National Institutes of Health, Carnegie Mellon University, Trusted Information Systems, Network Associates, McAfee, and SPARTA.
By days Nelson worked at Patelson's, the famous classical music store behind Carnegie Hall.
When she finished college at Carnegie, Steiber moved to New York City where she worked for a Japanese trading company.
At Carnegie Mellon, Lee worked on topics in machine learning and pattern recognition.

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( 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.
Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education and scientific research.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
According to Berkman, "... with the elimination of Frick, responsibility for Homestead conditions would rest with Carnegie.

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