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
Great Britons
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Great Britons is a television series that was broadcast by the BBC in 2002. It was based on a television poll conducted to determine who the British people at that time considered the greatest Britons
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
…her maiden voyage. She never saw commercial success except as a cable layer. In 2002, Brunel was placed second in a BBC public poll to determine the "100 Greatest Britons", with a major programme of events celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth in 2006. Brunel is remembered as an engineering genius and visionary…
Sir Winston S Churchill
IK Brunel Chains
Diana, Princess of Wales 1997
Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron, c. 1868