Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was an English engineer. He was born in Portsea, Portsmouth. He created the Great Western Railway. He built many steamships and many bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering.
During his career, Brunel achieved many engineering "firsts". He assisted the building of the first tunnel under a large river. He designed the SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven ocean-going iron ship, at the time (1843) the largest ship ever built.[1][2] He was the first designer of the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The bridge had a complicated history. It is a long bridge at a great height over the River Avon. Brunel died before the bridge was completed, and before the first voyage of his ship the SS Great Eastern.
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The Thames Tunnel in September 2005
The Clifton Suspension Bridge spans Avon Gorge, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset
The Maidenhead Railway Bridge, at the time the largest span for a brick arch bridge
The Royal Albert Bridge spanning the river Tamar at Saltash
Moorswater Viaduct at Liskeard, Cornwall as built
Paddington station, still a mainline station, was the London terminus of the Great Western Railway
A broad-gauge train on mixed-gauge track
Drawings for Weston Junction Station, by Brunel
A reconstruction of Brunel's atmospheric railway, using a segment of the original piping at Didcot Railway Centre
"Great Eastern at Sea": Brunel's great ship as imagined by the artist at her launch in 1858
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References
- ↑ Wilson, Arthur 1994. The living rock: the story of metals since earliest times and their impact on civilization. Woodhead Publishing, pp. 202–3. ISBN 978-1-85573-301-5
- ↑ "Isambard Kingdom Brunel". SS Great Britain. 29 March 2006. Archived from the original on 24 March 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2015.