Carnegie Steel Works.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 4, 1 February 1906, Page 87

Carnegie Steel Works.

In the Carnegie steel works at Homestead (writes M. G. Cunniff in the WorH's Work), I walked about over iron floors that scorched my shoe soles, peeping now through blue glasses into open-hearth furnaces where molten steel was boiling with the effervescing liquidity of soda water, and now dodging a cherry-

serenely rolled and slid and flew through those mighty rooms as if animate. Uncanny electric cranes glided smoothly overhead. Trains of incandescent ingots puffed in and out. What moved it all ? Well, there was a man sitting quietly at a lever here, another sitting there, and a few conversing quietly near the rolls, and as they crooked a finger now and then the whole pandemonium dinned its industrial paean and steel products were created.