Examples of Carnegie Institute of Technology in the following topics:
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- Andrew Carnegie, John D.
- Carnegie did give away his fortune, creating many institutions such as the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now part of Carnegie Mellon University) to upgrade craftsmen into trained engineers and scientists.
- Carnegie built hundreds of public libraries and several major research centers and foundations.
- They also made important contributions to rural development, including the establishment of a traveling school program by the Tuskegee Institute in 1906.
- These colleges laid the foundation of the world's pre-eminent educational infrastructure that supported the world's foremost technology-based economy.
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- With the fortune he made from business he built Carnegie Hall, later he turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
- Carnegie combined his assets and those of his associates in 1892 with the launching of the Carnegie Steel Company.
- By 1889, the U.S. output of steel exceeded that of the UK, and Carnegie owned a large part of it.
- This project was an important proof-of-concept for steel technology, which marked the opening of a new steel market.
- In 1901, Carnegie was 66 years of age and considering retirement.
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- Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew W.
- Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late nineteenth century.
- With the fortune he made from the steel industry, he built Carnegie Hall; later he turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
- Carnegie gave most of his money to establish many libraries, schools, and universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries, as well as to establish a pension fund for former employees.
- After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company, he merged in 1901 with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, to form the United States Steel Corporation.
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- This act required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color.
- They also made important contributions to rural development, including the establishment of a traveling school program by Tuskegee Institute in 1906.
- The engineering graduates played a major role in rapid technological development.
- Philanthropists endowed many of these institutions.
- Wealthy philanthropists, for example, established Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, Vanderbilt University, and Duke University; John D.
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- Technology is one small piece of knowledge.
- In economics, technology is the knowledge about the manipulation of resources, people and social institutions to produce goods and services that satisfy human wants.
- Each of these periods involves changes in ideas, values, knowledge and social institutions.
- Each stage of technological change may produce or require significant changes in values and social institutions.
- The development of the mechanical clock was driven by the clergy's desire to satisfy the institution of prayers at specific times of the day.
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- Humans have sought to solve the problem of provisioning through social interaction and the use of technology.
- A social institution is a habitual pattern of behavior that is embedded in a social system.
- Marriage is an example of a social institution.
- As a social institution, they may change over time as social values, technology, work and environment change.
- Technology involves knowledge about alternative ways of solving the problem of provisioning.
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- In 1898 the Illinois Supreme Court required Pullman to dissolve their ownership of the town.
- Another famous company town was McDonald, Ohio, which was created by the Carnegie Steel Company to house and serve the needs of its employees in the Youngstown, Ohio area.
- At their peak there were more than 2,500 company towns, housing 3% of the US population.
- Beginning with technological information smuggled out of England by Francis Cabot Lowell, large mills were established in New England in the early- to mid-19th century.
- Mill towns, sometimes planned, built, and owned as a company town, grew in the shadow of the industries.
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- This is a form of online interaction and community both essentials of educational technology.
- Educational technology has also revolutionized the accessibility of educational content outside of institutional affiliation.
- As of 2008, there were close to 150 collegiate institutions that had operational OpenCourseWare programs, or were in the process of planning such programs.
- These institutions include Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Michigan.
- Smartphone programmed for primary school mathematics learning, part of the "Mati Tec" program sponsored by the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City.
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- The institutions define the rules of the game; provide individuals with information and some degree of certainty in their social interactions.
- Institutions arise as solutions to a given set of problems.
- Should the elements of the problem change (the actors, agents, technology, information, other institutions), the institutions may need to adapt.
- However, any set of institutions is correlated with the interests of particular individuals.
- Consequently, the institutions that are prevalent at any point in time may lag behind environmental, technological and social changes.
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- The term refers to the gilding of a cheaper metal with a thin layer of gold.
- Historians view the Gilded Age as a period of rapid economic, technological, political, and social transformation.
- Technological innovations of the time included the telephone, skyscraper, refrigerator, car, linotype machine, electric lightbulb, typewriter, and electric motor, as well as advances in chromolithography, steel production, and many other industries.
- Mellon, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Flagler, Henry H.
- For instance, Andrew Carnegie donated more than 90 percent of his fortune and said that philanthropy was an upper-class duty—the "Gospel of Wealth."