Andrew Carnegie

According to David Billington’s The Innovators, the steam engine made it possible for Andrew Carngie to build his large steal mills, and at the same time Carnegie made the railroads even more important and let them grow further, which led to Carnegie being important in the building of what is thought of today as industry. Carnegie had four basic needs for his company to succeed which were capital, a site for his mills, a group of lieutenants, and a management plan. In his company, Carnegie had two essential functions, which were watchdog over the production and being the salesman to ensure full production. Carnegie could not have succeeded if it wasn’t for the steam engine. Thanks to the steam engine, Carnegie could get his raw materials and transport his product all over the North East. Without the steam engine, neither the arrival of raw materials or the departure of steel could have take place. Between 1875 and 1883, Carnegie transformed the steel industry, made millions of dollars and transformed the US economy by helping make the change form an agricultural society to an industrial society.