steel
America The Story of Us: BOOM
Americans conquer a new frontier, the modern city, with Carnegie’s empire of steel as its backbone. Skyscrapers and the Statue of Liberty are symbols of the American dream for millions of immigrants. The discovery of [...]
Steel
Steel is everywhere we look—it’s in our buildings, our weapons, our art, and even inside our bodies. In this riveting exploration of the so-called miracle metal, host Daniel H. Wilson takes an inside look at [...]
St Louis Arch
It is a majestic structure that rises boldly over the Mississippi river — 40,000 tons of steel and concrete that create the biggest arch of its kind in the world. Nothing like it had ever [...]
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge was not only a landmark, but also the first bridge of its kind. No one had ever used steel for construction, nor used cables of metal, nor built a suspension bridge so [...]
Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel
America is built on a steel skeleton. Without Andrew Carnegie, that skeleton-and the nation-might have taken a different form. ANDREW CARNEGIE AND THE AGE OF STEEL visits historic ironworks-namely Saugus and Hopewell-as well as today’s [...]
