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	BBC - History - Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 - 1859)
		Brunel was one of the most versatile and audacious engineers of the 19th century, responsible for the design of tunnels, bridges, railway lines and ships.
		Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born on 9 April 1806 in Portsmouth.
		Brunel's first notable achievement was the part he played with his father in planning the Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping, completed in 1843.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/brunel_kingdom_isambard.shtml (391 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel
		Isambard Kindom made a number of descents, in a diving bell to inspect the breach, which was eventually filled with bags of clay and gravel.
		Brunel worked on the improvement of large guns and designed a floating armoured barge used for the attack on Kronshtadt during the Crimean War in 1854.
		Brunel, at the age of 24, was elected to the Royal Society in 1830.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /b.gardner/brunel/kingbrun.html (771 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The young Brunel was sent to France to be educated at the College of Caen in Normandy and the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris.
		Isambard rose to prominence when, aged 20, he was appointed as the resident engineer of his father's greatest achievement, the Thames Tunnel which runs beneath the river between Rotherhithe and Wapping.
		Brunel made the controversial choice of using broad gauge of 7 ft 0.25 in (2140 mm) for the line, even though almost all British railways to date had used a gauge of 4 ft 8.5 in.
	voyager.in /Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel (2028 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Free English Encyclopedia from Turkcebilgi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brunel was a heavy cigar smoker and suffered several years of ill health with kidney problems, before succumbing to a stroke at the age of fifty-three.andlt;refandgt;Smith, John.
		At 14 the young Brunel was sent to France to be educated at the the [[LycÃ©e Henri-Quatre]] in Paris and later, the University of Caen in Normandy.andlt;ref name=3shipsandgt;Dumpleton.
		Isambard rose to prominence when, aged 20, he was appointed as the chief assistant engineer of his father's greatest achievement, the Thames Tunnel, which runs beneath the river between Rotherhithe and Wapping.
	www.turkcebilgi.com /ansiklopedi/english/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel (3089 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel / Design Engineer (1806-1859) - Design/Designer Information
		Isambard attended school in Chelsea and Hove, but as the best mathematical education was to be had in France, he was sent to study there, at Caen College in 1820 and then at Lycée Henri IV in Paris, where he stayed with the family of the horologist Louis Breguet.
		Brunel was badly injured during the flood and was sent to convalesce in Bristol where he was encouraged to enter a competition to design the Clifton Bridge across the Avon Gorge.
		Brunel’s scheme was highly controversial and he fought a bitter battle to implement it: even threatening to resign when the GWR board tried to force him to work with a co-engineer.
	www.designmuseum.org /design/isambard-kingdom-brunel (2187 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Great Buildings Online
		The son of an engineer (Marc Isambard Brunel), Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth, England in 1806.
		In this position, Brunel came to pioneer several strength tests and preservation methods.
		Brunel generated imaginative and confident designs for everything from tunnels, railways and bridges to harbors, prefabricated buildings and ships.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel.html (327 words)

	No. 17: Brunel
		Those engineers were melodramatic artists in iron, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the grandest of them all.
		His father, Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, was born in France in 1769 and died in England in 1849.
		It was all it was meant to be, with one catch: it was only one quarter as fuel-efficient as Brunel had expected, and that killed it as a passenger liner.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi17.htm (479 words)

	Brunel 200: Home
		Brunel 200 provided an exciting and wide-ranging programme of exhibitions, learning programmes, publications, walks and trails, arts projects, competitions, debates, media programmes and talks that commemorated Brunel’s life, times and legacy and inspired the Brunels of the future.
		Although the news, events and resources information on this website will no longer be updated, the background material contained on Brunel, his work and the industrial age will continue to be of value, and the archived news releases and calendars of Brunel 200 events will provide a wonderful souvenir of a great year.
		Photos of Brunel, his work and the Brunel 200 activity available as free downloads from the image library.
	www.brunel200.com (245 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel
		Brunel, perhaps, was the most prodigious of them all and many of his works, which challenged and inspired his colleagues during this period, have survived to our own time and some are still in use.
		Unlike most engineers of the time, Isambard Brunel received a sound education and practical training - partly in France - before entering his father's office and taking full charge of the Thames Tunnel at Rotherhithe when he was only 20.
		Brunel's other works included docks, viaducts, tunnels and buildings and the remarkable prefabricated hospital, with its air-conditioning and drainage systems for use in the Crimean War.
	www.brunel.ac.uk /about/history/ikb (346 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel — the Little Giant
		Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a dynamic bit of a man with a high beaver hat full of memorandums scribbled to himself, and a leather pocket case holding fifty Trincomalee cigars.
		Isambard Brunel's first skein across the chasm was a castiron bar an inch and a half thick.
		The War Office, however, carried out another Brunel design, a 1,500 bed military hospital, prefabricated in England (no part was too heavy for two men to carry) and erected at Renkioi, Turkey, by twenty men in seven months.
	www.victorianweb.org /technology/engineers/brunel1.html (465 words)

	Alextrack - Railways - The Royal Albert Bridge - Isambard Kingdom Brunel
		Avoiding the traditional biographical style of writing, this title explores Brunel's designs with the aid of contemporary architects, re-evaluating the designs and concluding that they are the best not simply 'because they were Brunel's', but because he investigated the most practical way of problem solving.
		Isambard Kingdom Brunel is admired as one of the greatest of all engineers.
		"Brunel" tells the story both of the engineer, who followed his father Marc into what was then a new profession, and of the man. It explores his successes and failures, at home and abroad, including both the broad gauge GWR and the SS Great Eastern, bringing out Brunel's imagination, drive and inventiveness.
	www.royal-albert-bridge.co.uk /brunel (608 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Books: L.T.C. Rolt,Angus Buchanan
		Rolt's biography of Brunel is light-years away from this - it is first and foremost a portrait of a complex, ambitious and determined genius, with his engineering placed in a personal, social and historical context.
		Brunel's own words are as vigorous and fascinating as those Rolt uses; this is a lively, fast-paced book covering all aspects of a very full life full of innovation.
		Isambard Brunel was an engineering genius, a technical innovative icon out of the top drawer and one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140117520/realintegrity-21/ref=nosim (730 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel
		Controversially, Brunel used the broad gauge (2.2 m) instead of the standard gauge (1.55m) on the line.
		Brunel persuaded the Great Western Railway Company to let him build a steam boat to travel from Bristol to New York.
		Brunel was faced with a series of difficult engineering problems to overcome on this project and the strain of the work began to affect his health.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RAbrunel.htm (513 words)

	No. 1405: Brunel -- Father and Son
		And Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the grandest artist of them all.
		His father, Marc Isambard Brunel, was born in France in 1769.
		The person he put in charge of the tunnel was his flamboyant 20-year-old son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1405.htm (482 words)

	I.K. Brunel
		Isambard was born in Portsmouth on April 9th 1809.
		He helped his father (Sir Marc Isambard Brunel) build the first tunnel under the river Thames.
		Brunel built gigantic steam ships cabable of crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.noelstanton1.btinternet.co.uk /brunel1.html (71 words)

	Brunel 200: Isambard Kingdom Brunel
		Kenneth Clark wrote of Brunel in his landmark book Civilisation that he ‘remained all his life in love with the impossible’.
		Even though some of Brunel’s projects failed – often spectacularly – and he was not to see the completion of one of his greatest achievements, the Clifton Suspension Bridge, he remains widely acknowledged as an engineering genius.
		For a detailed time line showing the key events in Brunel’s life in relation to other events in Bristol, Britain, science and engineering, arts and letters, and elsewhere, download the Word file from the downloads on the right.
	www.brunel200.com /isambard_kingdom.htm (156 words)

	Sir Marc Isambard Brunel
		In 1825, Brunel began the construction of the Thames Tunnel (the first in which a shield was used; see
		See biography of M. Brunel by P. Clements (1970); study by P. Hay (1973); biographies of I. Brunel by his son, I. Brunel (1870, repr.
		Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships
	www.factmonster.com /id/A0809212 (232 words)

	Structurae [en]: Isambard Kingdom Brunel ( 1806- 1859)
		Buchanan, Angus Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Hambledon and London Ltd, ISBN 185285331X, 2002.
		Geburtstag Isambard Kingdom Brunels, in "Der Stahlbau", December 2006, n.
		Pugsley, A. The works of Sir Isambard Kingdom Brunel: an engineering appreciation, Institution of Civil Engineers and University of Bristol, 1976.
	en.structurae.de /persons/data/index.cfm?id=d000002 (254 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the second round of voting, which concluded on November 24, 2002, he placed second behind Winston Churchill.
		Owing to an editing error last week, we failed to make clear that a letter from Chris Doyle, carried in response to our publication of an extract from Melanie Phillips's new book Londonistan, was written in his capacity as director of the Council for...
		a walk across the Clifton Suspension Bridge is an essential part of any visit to Bristol, especially so during Brunel's birthday celebrations.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel.html (1053 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), Civil engineer
		Brunel is the most celebrated civil engineer of the nineteenth century.
		The son of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, he earned early experience working on his father's Thames Tunnel.
		He went on to design pioneering docks, suspension bridges, the Great Western Railway and railways in Italy, India and Australia.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp00608 (209 words)

	Clifton Suspension Bridge - Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Great Buildings Online
		The principal span of 214 m (702 ft) seems even more daring because of the 76 m (250 ft) deep gorge.
		It was characteristic of the period that Brunel sought to match the grandeur of the setting with a noble design, and the pylons (which were to have had sphinxes and hieroglyphic decoration) were of Egyptian inspiration.
		The bridge was delayed for lack of funds and was completed after Brunel's death using chains from another of his works, the Hungerford Suspension Bridge, London (1841-5)."
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Clifton_Suspension_Bridge.html (206 words)

	The Civil Engineering Portal - Famous Engineers - Brunel,Kingdom
		Creator of the Great Western Railway, bridge builder, revolutionary naval architect.
		BBC: Brunel: 'the practical prophet of technological innovation'
		Observer: Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
	www.icivilengineer.com /Famous_Engineers/Brunel,Kingdom (38 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel
		As a director of Great Western Rail, (take a train from London to New York an early slogan) he helped revolutionised transport including buses and trams.
		There are references to the work of his son, Henry who was foremost in the design of the Bay's water supply who worked with architect and engineer William Froude (IK Brunel's assistant) who developed ship hull design and test facilities at Chelston (Cross).
		Because of the scientific and engineering work of the Victorian period and the eminence of his work, the reclusive and wonderfully eccentric Oliver Heaviside has been included in this theme.
	www.torbytes.co.uk /op/tm2/lv2 (214 words)

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