Carnegie-Illinois Steel blast furnaces in Etna, Pennsylvania (1941)

Carnegie Steel Company was a steel producing company created by Andrew Carnegie to manage business at his steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century. Andrew Carnegie (properly kɑrˈneɪgi but commonly /ˈkɑrnɨgi/ or /kɑrˈnɛgi/ (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919 was a Scottish -born American Industrialist Steel Mill was one of Bruce Springsteen 's early bands and performed regularly on the Jersey Shore, in Virginia, and also in California from 1969 The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar

Creation

Carnegie constructed his first steel mill in the mid-1870s: the profitable Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Steel Mill was one of Bruce Springsteen 's early bands and performed regularly on the Jersey Shore, in Virginia, and also in California from 1969 The Edgar Thomson Steel Works is a Steel mill in North Braddock Pennsylvania. Braddock is a borough located in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County Pennsylvania, 10 miles (16 km upstream from the mouth of the Monongahela The profits made by the Edgar Thomson Steel Works were sufficiently great to permit Mr. Carnegie and a number of his associates to purchase other nearby steel mills. In 1892, Carnegie Steel Company was formed. Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year At its peak, the company operated a total of eight steel mills.

Its headquarters was located in the Carnegie Building, an office building in Downtown Pittsburgh^[1]. Downtown Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, officially called the Golden Triangle or Central Business District, specifically referring to the view of Downtown Built to display the use of steel in its construction, the building was fifteen stories high, and was left uncovered for a full year. Located in Pittsburgh, the building stood for 57 years, 1895-1952. Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Demolition of the Carnegie Building commenced on March 1, 1952. Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Steel Mills

• Edgar Thomson Works, Braddock, Pennsylvania
  • 15,654 employees in 1900
  • The first Carnegie free public library built in America is in Braddock

• Homestead Works, Homestead, Pennsylvania
  • 12,554 employees in 1900, peak employment of 30,000
  • A massive plant acquired in 1883
  • Closed in 1987 and demolished
  • Currently the site of The Waterfront retail

• Mingo Junction, Mingo Junction, Ohio
  • 2,954 employees in 1900
  • The steel mill was the only manufacturing plant in Mingo Junction in 1900

• Duquesne Works, Duquesne, Pennsylvania
  • It was a modest, but new, plant called Duquesne Steel Company when it was acquired in 1889

Sale

Carnegie Steel Company was sold to the United States Steel Company in 1901. The Edgar Thomson Steel Works is a Steel mill in North Braddock Pennsylvania. Braddock is a borough located in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County Pennsylvania, 10 miles (16 km upstream from the mouth of the Monongahela Homestead Steel Works, located in Homestead Pennsylvania, was a rival of the steel company Carnegie Steel, founded by Andrew Carnegie (an immigrant of Homestead is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA in the "Mon Valley" seven miles (11 km southeast of downtown Pittsburgh Year 1883 ( MDCCCLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) The Waterfront is a super-regional open air Shopping mall spanning the three boroughs of Homestead, West Homestead and Munhall Mingo Junction is a village in Jefferson County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. Duquesne is a city along the Monongahela River in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States and is part of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The United States Steel Corporation ( is an integrated Steel producer with major production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting U. S. Steel was a conglomerate with subsidiary companies. The United States Steel Corporation ( is an integrated Steel producer with major production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe A subsidiary, in business matters is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity The name of the subsidiary company was changed to the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company in 1936. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Local competition

The presence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers provided a way to transport the heavy materials associated with the steel-making industry. The Allegheny River is a principal Tributary of the Ohio River and is located in the Eastern United States. The Monongahela River (məˌnɒŋɡəˈheɪlə also known locally as the Mon /ˈmɒn/ is a River on the Allegheny Plateau in North-Central The Ohio River is the largest Tributary by volume of the Mississippi River. Each plant was located close to or alongside a river.

The seed of the company which became its strongest competitor was sown in 1853. Year 1853 ( MDCCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Jones, Lauth and Company established puddling furnaces and rolling mills along the Monongahela at a location a couple of miles (roughly four kilometers) away from Pittsburgh. The Monongahela River (məˌnɒŋɡəˈheɪlə also known locally as the Mon /ˈmɒn/ is a River on the Allegheny Plateau in North-Central Bernard Lauth invented and patented cold rolling of iron in 1859. Year 1859 ( MDCCCLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In the same year, James Laughlin constructed Laughlin and Company directly across the river from the Jones, Lauth and Company. Over time, the two enterprises became united under the name J&L Steel and installed their first two Bessemer converters for the production of steel in 1886. The earliest foundations of Jones and Laughlin Steel Company were the American Iron Company founded in 1851 by Bernard Lauth, and the firm of Jones and Lauth founded in 1852 The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive Industrial process for the mass-production of Steel from molten Pig iron. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

J&L Steel became the most important competitor to the Carnegie Steel Company and U. S. Steel in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. The United States Steel Corporation ( is an integrated Steel producer with major production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe In 1905 it began the construction of a new steel mill along the Ohio River twenty miles (32 km) downriver from Pittsburgh at Aliquippa. Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The Ohio River is the largest Tributary by volume of the Mississippi River. Aliquippa is a city in Beaver County Pennsylvania, and is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area In 1908, it constructed a new 12-story office building in Pittsburgh. Year 1908 ( MCMVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year

J&L Steel announced numerous expansions of its operations, including a $250,000,000 expansion for 1955-58. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In 1968, Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ling-Temco-Vought was a large US conglomerate. History In 1947 entrepreneur James Ling founded his own Dallas electrical contracting business of Texas, offered to buy sixty-three percent of J&L Steel, marking the beginning of the end for "big steel" in the Pittsburgh region. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State.

20th Century Steel Production

Changes in the way in which steel is produced had already appeared before the Carnegie Steel Company was sold in 1901. Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Steel manufacturers had begun to abandon the Bessemer converters and install open-hearth furnaces. The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive Industrial process for the mass-production of Steel from molten Pig iron. Open hearth furnaces are one of a number of kinds of Furnace where excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of Pig iron to produce steel. Open-hearth furnaces were widely employed until the 1970s when the basic oxygen furnace, electric arc furnace and continuous casting made them obsolete. A basic oxygen furnace, also known as an LD converter, is the place within an integrated steel mill where molten iron from the blast furnace is changed into liquid An electric arc furnace (EAF is a Furnace that heats charged material by means of an Electric arc. Continuous Casting (also called Strand Casting is the process whereby molten steel is solidified into a "semifinished" billet bloom or slab for subsequent rolling in the finishing mills Currently, employment is extraordinarily low at the remaining plants which have been a part of the Carnegie Steel Company since 1900, though in Braddock the J. Edgar Thomson Works is still active, producing hot iron that is shipped up the river to the Irvin Works at Dravosburg to be finished into steel.

See also

• List of possible monopolies

References

External links

• Old steel mill at Mingo Junction, Ohio