'Isambard Kingdom Brunel', Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS (; 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English Mechanical engineering|mechanical and civil engineer who built dockyards, the Great Western Railway, a series of steamships including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Though Brunel's projects were not always successful, they often contained innovative solutions to long-standing engineering problems. During his short career, Brunel achieved many engineering firsts, including assisting in the building of the first tunnel under a navigable river and development of SS Great Britain|SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven ocean-going iron ship, which was at the time (1843) also the largest ship ever built.Wilson (1994), pp. 202–3.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Brunel set the standard for a very well built railway, using careful surveys to minimise grades and curves
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Brunel astonished Britain by proposing to extend the Great Western Railway westward to North America by building steam-powered iron-hulled ships. He designed and built three ships that revolutionised naval engineering.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel In 2002, Brunel was placed second in a BBC public poll to determine the 100 Greatest Britons. In 2006, the bicentenary of his birth, a major programme of events celebrated his life and work under the name Brunel 200.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Thames Tunnel Brunel worked for several years as an assistant engineer on the project to create a tunnel under London's River Thames, with tunnellers driving a horizontal shaft from one side of the river to the other under the most difficult and dangerous conditions. Brunel's father, Marc, was the chief engineer, and the project was funded by the Thames Tunnel Company.Dumpleton and Miller (2002), pp. 14–15
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Thames Tunnel The composition of the riverbed at Rotherhithe was often little more than waterlogged sediment and loose gravel
Brunel is perhaps best remembered for designing the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Bridges Afterwards, Brunel wrote to his brother-in-law, the politician Benjamin Hawes: Of all the wonderful feats I have performed, since I have been in this part of the world, I think yesterday I performed the most wonderful. I produced unanimity among 15 men who were all quarrelling about that most ticklish subject— taste.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Bridges Work on the Clifton bridge started in 1831, but was suspended due to the Bristol Riots#Queen Square riots, 1831|Queen Square riots caused by the arrival of Sir Charles Wetherell in Clifton. The riots drove away investors, leaving no money for the project, and construction ceased.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Bridges Brunel did not live to see the bridge finished, although his colleagues and admirers at the Institution of Civil Engineers felt it would be a fitting memorial, and started to raise new funds and to amend the design
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Bridges Brunel designed many bridges for his railway projects, including the Royal Albert Bridge spanning the River Tamar at Saltash near Plymouth, Bridgwater railway station#Somerset Bridge|Somerset Bridge (an unusual laminated timber-framed bridge near Bridgwater), the Windsor Railway Bridge, and the Maidenhead Railway Bridge over the Thames in Berkshire
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Bridges In 1845 Hungerford Bridge, a suspension bridge|suspension footbridge across the Thames near Charing Cross Station in London, was opened. It was replaced by a new railway bridge in 1859, and the suspension chains were used to complete the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Bridges Throughout his railway building career, but particularly on the South Devon Railway Company|South Devon and Cornwall Railways where economy was needed and there were many valleys to cross, Brunel made extensive use of wood for the construction of substantial viaducts;Lewis, Brian (18 June 2007)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Bridges Brunel designed the Royal Albert Bridge in 1855 for the Cornwall Railway, after Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament rejected his original plan for a train ferry across the Hamoaze—the estuary of the tidal River Tamar|Tamar, River Tavy|Tavy and River Lynher|Lynher
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Bridges Several of Brunel's bridges over the Great Western Railway might be demolished because the line is to be electrified, and there is inadequate clearance for overhead wires. Buckinghamshire County Council is negotiating to have further options pursued, in order that all nine of the remaining historic bridges on the line can be saved.
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