Titans of Industry: Rockefeller and Carnegie

Rockefeller and Carnegue started with nothing and worked their way to the top. But not in one day or two, it took the years to get where they were. Both became very rich and because of that people disliked them. But they weren't as mean as people saw them, because they donated money to help many places in need. Carnegie and Rockefeller were philantropists, people that made an effort to incrase the well-being of humankind, by charity and donations. Rockefeller believed in Efficiency Movement, he helped places like schools and universities that were good and would use his money to actually improve their teaching. He gave $80 millions to the University of Chicago, making it into a world-class institution, noa a Baptist college anymore. He also helped improve the study of medicine in the U.S. with the help of Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Rockefeller founded many teaching places and he donated a lot of money to these foundations, helping people to become successful on whatever they wanted to do. His two greatest goals were to make $100,000, that he accomplished, and to live 100 years, but he died 2 months before his 98th birthday. Carnegie wasn't a philantropists his whole life. In 1886, he wrote a book about his views on social subjects and the responsabilities of a great wealth; it was called Triumphant Democracy. He started helping people with their interests and improving education, like Rockefeller. Carnegie strongly promoted the spread of English language. He also donated to create public libraries all over the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom and many other places that spoke english. These libraries were called Carnegie libraries.But the local authority had to provide land and also provide some money for the operation and to mantain it. He founded around 3,000 libraries. He also donated 55,000 to the University of Birmingham.