Andrew Carnegie Timeline

Birth of Andrew Carnegie

1835

Andrew Carnegie was born in 1835 in Scotland to a poor weaver

Iron bridge makers

1865

In 1865 Carnegie left the railroad and started his own company making railroad bridges from iron

Gifted money

1911

In 1911 he gave a gift of $125 million to establish the Carnegie Corporation of America which provided funding to institutions and organizations that conduct research on education and public affairs