Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 The Cola Wars
- Season 1 Wildcatters
- Season 1 Battle for the Skies
- Season 1 The DuPont Dynasty
- Season 1 Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel
- Season 1 J. Pierpont Morgan: Emperor of Wall Street
- Season 1 The Kellogg Brothers: Cornflake Kings
- Season 1 Black Gold: The Story of Oil
- Season 1 Brewed in America
- Season 1 War Planes of World War II
Empires of Industry - Season 1 Episode 5 Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel
0.00 48 minutes Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel chronicles the rise of the iron and steel industries in the United States and the personal ascent of immigrant Andrew Carnegie, whose steel company would one day make him the richest man in America. The American iron, and later steel, industries were the backbone of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, supplying the material that would enable the growth of railroads, skyscrapers, war machines and a host of other industries. It is the story of the rise of big industry in the United States, in all its glory, and all its shame. While the steel industry would make men such as Andrew Carnegie wealthy beyond imagination, it would also cripple, maim, and kill those who toiled to keep the furnaces blasting and the steel rolling.
