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a train car for overnight passenger travel. The first sleeping cars were put in use on American railroads in 1830 but these were makeshift the first car designed for comfortable night time travel.
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Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835. Andrew was born in Dunfermline Scotland's historic medieval capital.
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Andrew Carnegie's first job was working at a cotton factory when he was 13.
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Andrew's 2nd job was a messenger in a telegraph office at age 14.
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He made his first investment of $500 in Adams Express in 1855
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Using money from his investment in sleeping cars, Carnegie invests in an oil company.
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On this day Ms Louise Whitfield at 8:00 said I do to one one the most richest men in the world
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Andrew Carnegie created the steel industry it was the largest and made the most money it was created in 1890.
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Carnegie left the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1865 and started managing the Keystone Bridge Company where he started working he began foucsing on steel, founding near Pittsburgh the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Works, which would eventually turn in to into the Carnegie Steel.
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Andrew sold the steel company to J.P Morgan for $250,000,000 in 1901.
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he retired in 1901 when he was 66
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Andrew Carnegie died of bronchial pneumonia in his summer home in the town of Lenox, Massachusetts.
