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The invention of the Bessemer Convertor in 1856 enabled the great increase in steel production of the late 1800s. Andrew Carnegie saw their potential on a trip to Sheffield, England built mills to use them in the United States. The Bessemer Convertor can take the output directly from a blast furnace and turn it into steel. As the iron goes from the blast furnace to the converter, other metals are thrown into the iron depending on the type of steel desired. Air is forced into the bottom of the convertor. It burns excess carbon out of the iron turning it into steel. Then the Bessemer Convertor is rolled over and the steel is poured into carts and taken to the next step. Previously Steel had been difficult to make and had been used for very few items. The Romans used it for swords but used iron for most utensils. Iron rails in rail road tracks could be replaced with steel rails and trains could double or triple in speed. After a number of years, Carnegie sold his company and it became U.S. Steel. He created a charitable foundation with the money he got from the sale of his company. That foundation created much of the public library system in the United States. It created an entertainment building in New York called Carnegie Hall. And it financed a study that led to a book by Gunnar Myrdal, called, An American Dilemma. That book provided the intellectual basis for the Civil Rights Movement.

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