(1835-1919)

Andrew Carnegie emigrated from Scotland to the United States. He began his career as a weaver like his father, but then became a telegraph messenger boy and eventually a telegraph operator and superintendent. He made his fortune in railroads, communications, and steel; he sold his interest to J. P. Morgan in 1901 for $250 million. When he retired from public life, he dedicated much of his fortune to establishing institutions for the public good, including Carnegie Tech (later Carnegie Mellon University), Carnegie Hall, the Carnegie Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, and libraries in many towns and cities in the United States and Britain. Most of his writings concern the importance of preserving and maintaining world peace, but he also wrote about business and money.

The Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum

The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie

Mathematical Mysteries: Kepler's Conjecture

American Realities

"Wealth" (1889)