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
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
Clifton Suspension Bridge
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The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset. Since opening in 1864, it has been a toll
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
…was cancelled after a collapse nearly killed him, and was only completed later without his involvement. While recovering, he began his work on the Clifton Suspension Bridge; after riots in Bristol around government policy, work on the bridge was cancelled and it was only completed after his death. Brunel's time at the GWR…
Clifton Suspension Bridge
William Bridges' design
St Vincent Rock before construction began
Brunel's initial and final designs