HIS 162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Carnegie Steel Company, Gilded Age, Bessemer Process
14 Feb 2018
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Covering things in thin layers of gold but not actually pure gold, lipstick on a pig. Mark twain- the gilded age, a tale of today . This era in american history is putting a fine layer of gold on a garbage time period. It looks like good things are happening, but underneath something very different is going on. More and more common in households, transforms communication instantaneously. Easy to use, accessible (for the wealthy) Invents shit, starts a grudge mass with nikola tesla. Every city had multiple newspapers, two or three editions a day. Two things that set the gilded age apart. Process by which w turn iron into steel. Up until 1860, the main metal used is iron. Very brittle, very heavy, can not build very tall buildings with it. Steel would be better, made out of iron, but the process was too labor intensive to be used on a large enough scale.
