Dionysius Lardner
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Dionysius Lardner FRS FRSE was an Irish scientific writer and science and technology populariser who edited the 133-volume The Cabinet Cyclopædia.
Dionysius Lardner
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel was an English civil and marine engineer considered "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution", "perhaps the most eminent Victorian engineer", and one whose wor
Dionysius Lardner
…Lardner died in Naples, Italy, and is buried in the English Cemetery there. Lardner became involved in a number of ill-advised public disagreements with Isambard Kingdom Brunel regarding technical matters, in which he came off the worse. During 1833 Parliamentary hearings discussing the proposal of the Great Western Railway…
Brunel by the launching chains of the SS Great Eastern, by Robert Howlett, 1857
Kensal Green Cemetery, designed by Brunel and his father with Augustus Charles Pugin
The two bores of the tunnel in 1870 in The Illustrated London News
Paddington station as published in The Illustrated London News in 1854