WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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He introduced the Lancashire Loom to the textile industry.
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He introduced the Bessemer Process to the steel industry.
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He introduced the assembly line to the automobile industry.
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He introduced the telegraph to the communications industry.
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Detailed explanation-1: -His steel empire produced the raw materials that built the physical infrastructure of the United States. He was a catalyst in America’s participation in the Industrial Revolution, as he produced the steel to make machinery and transportation possible throughout the nation.
Detailed explanation-2: -In addition to funding libraries, he paid for thousands of church organs in the United States and around the world. Carnegie’s wealth helped to establish numerous colleges, schools, nonprofit organizations and associations in his adopted country and many others.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the early 1870s, Carnegie co-founded his first steel company, near Pittsburgh. Over the next few decades, he created a steel empire, maximizing profits and minimizing inefficiencies through ownership of factories, raw materials and transportation infrastructure involved in steel making.
Detailed explanation-4: -In addition, Carnegie Steel bought up its sources of raw materials and shipping (in a strategy called vertical integration) and bought out and absorbed its competitors (horizontal integration) to dominate the steel industry.